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The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another. — Barbara Deming

You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there. — W. Edwards Deming

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing. — W. Edwards Deming

There is no knowledge without theory. — W. Edwards Deming

Quality is everyone's responsibility. — W. Edwards Deming

Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should. — W. Edwards Deming

You can expect what you inspect. — W. Edwards Deming

Any two people have different ideas of what is important. — W. Edwards Deming

Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us. — Barbara Deming

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. - W. Edwards Deming — Joseph Grenny

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. — Barbara Deming

No-one can put in his best performance unless he feels secure," Deming wrote, — Julian Birkinshaw

I've been accused of darkness
by my inner light. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing. — W. Edwards Deming

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. — W. Edwards Deming

There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones. — W. Edwards Deming

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself. — W. Edwards Deming

Learning is not compulsory ... neither is survival. — W. Edwards Deming

The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer. — W. Edwards Deming

People don't like to make mistakes. — W. Edwards Deming

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn. — W. Edwards Deming

Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone. — W. Edwards Deming

A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?. — W. Edwards Deming

Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market. — W. Edwards Deming

We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual. — W. Edwards Deming

There is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change. — Barbara Deming

The transformation will come from leadership. — W. Edwards Deming

Knowledge needs to be a verb. — W. Edwards Deming

Competent men in every position, if they are doing their best, know all that there is to know about their work except how to improve it. — W. Edwards Deming

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn. — W. Edwards Deming

The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place. — W. Edwards Deming

Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube. — W. Edwards Deming

The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable. — W. Edwards Deming

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country. — W. Edwards Deming

You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method. — W. Edwards Deming

Without theory we can only copy. — W. Edwards Deming

Nothing happens without personal transformation. — W. Edwards Deming

People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system. — W. Edwards Deming

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job. — W. Edwards Deming

In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement. — W. Edwards Deming

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management. — W. Edwards Deming

The process is not just the sum of its parts. — W. Edwards Deming

Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof. — W. Edwards Deming

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two. — W. Edwards Deming

You do not install quality; you begin to work at it. — W. Edwards Deming

The emphasis should be on why we do a job. — W. Edwards Deming

When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him. — W. Edwards Deming

Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not. — W. Edwards Deming

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality. — W. Edwards Deming

Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs. — W. Edwards Deming

What makes a scientist great is the care that he takes in telling you what is wrong with his results, so that you will not misuse them. — W. Edwards Deming

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business ... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming

In God we trust; all others bring data. — W. Edwards Deming

When we cooperate, everybody wins. — W. Edwards Deming

The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside. — W. Edwards Deming

My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything. — W. Edwards Deming

Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems. — W. Edwards Deming

The individual has been crushed by our style of management today. — W. Edwards Deming

Without questions, there is no learning. — W. Edwards Deming

You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information. — W. Edwards Deming

The most important things we need to manage can't be measured. — W. Edwards Deming

You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work. — W. Edwards Deming

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management! — W. Edwards Deming

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. — W. Edwards Deming

To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts — W. Edwards Deming

Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. — David Deming

A leader's job is to help his people. — W. Edwards Deming

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management. — W. Edwards Deming

Management is prediction. — W. Edwards Deming

Quality starts in the boardroom. — W. Edwards Deming

A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help. — W. Edwards Deming

Impossible is Nothing — Deming

Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. — W. Edwards Deming

All models are wrong; some models are useful. — W. Edwards Deming

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. — W. Edwards Deming

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming

Lack of knowledge ... that is the problem. — W. Edwards Deming

You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself. — W. Edwards Deming

Survival is optional. No one has to change. — W. Edwards Deming

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for — W. Edwards Deming

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. — W. Edwards Deming

I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am. — Barbara Deming

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming

We must understand variation. — W. Edwards Deming

Quality is pride of workmanship. — W. Edwards Deming

There should be no censorship of mail. — Barbara Deming

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years. — W. Edwards Deming

Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data. — W. Edwards Deming

It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding. — W. Edwards Deming

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion. — W. Edwards Deming

Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work. — W. Edwards Deming

Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them. — W. Edwards Deming

Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options. — W. Edwards Deming

Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about. — W. Edwards Deming

We cannot live without our lives — Barbara Deming