W. Edwards Deming Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by W. Edwards Deming
W. Edwards Deming Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.
The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.
He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.
No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.
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.
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
On production floors and in corporate offices, sociological verbiage has replaced a basic understanding of human behavior.
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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.