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You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there.
— W. Edwards Deming
We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
— W. Edwards Deming
Management does not know what a system is.
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There is no knowledge without theory.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.
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You can expect what you inspect.
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Any two people have different ideas of what is important.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. - W. Edwards Deming
— Joseph Grenny
A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
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People don't like to make mistakes.
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Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.
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The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.
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You do not install quality; you begin to work at it.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.
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Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.
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Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.
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Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.
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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.
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Absence of defects does not necessarily build business ... Something more is required.
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Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
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Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.
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A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.
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People are entitled to joy in work.
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Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
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Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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Learning is not compulsory ... neither is survival.
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The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.
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People need to know what their jobs are.
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It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
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A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.
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The main difference between service and manufacturing is the service department doesn't know that they have a product.
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Change the rule and you will get a new number.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.
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The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
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The process is not just the sum of its parts.
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You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.
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The aim should be to work on the method of management.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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You can not achieve an aim unless you have a method.
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Without theory we can only copy.
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Nothing happens without personal transformation.
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People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.
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Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.
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In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.
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Quality starts in the boardroom.
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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.
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The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.
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Without questions, there is no learning.
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You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.
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The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.
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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.
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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
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A leader's job is to help his people.
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Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.
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To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts
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A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.
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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
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All models are wrong; some models are useful.
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Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
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Lack of knowledge ... that is the problem.
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Management is prediction.
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When we cooperate, everybody wins.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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You have to manage a system. The system doesn't manage itself.
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Knowledge needs to be a verb.
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There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
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We must understand variation.
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We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual.
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The transformation will come from leadership.
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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.
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Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.
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The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
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Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.
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In God we trust; all others bring data.
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Survival is optional. No one has to change.
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To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.
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People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
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I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
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Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data.
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It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding.
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Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.
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Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.
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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
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