W. Edwards Deming Quotes

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• Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

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  Roles, Systems And Processes, Management

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• Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

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  Winning, Good Person, Contests

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• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

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  Business, Top Management, Systems And Processes

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• Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

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  Quality, Improvement, Process

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 29, 1982.

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• ...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

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  Learning, Mean, Data

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• It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.

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  Inspirational, Excellence, Enough

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• Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

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  Learning, Knowledge, Two

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• The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

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  Frustration, People, Use

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• In God we trust; all others bring data.

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  Funny Good Morning, Data, Measurement

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• Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.

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  Giving, Today

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• Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.

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  People, Joy, Innovation

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• What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

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  Teamwork, Mean, Learning

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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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  Data, Decision, Purpose

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• I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

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  Responsibility, Risk, Special

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• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

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  Change, Meaningful, Top Management

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• Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection but from improvement of the process.

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  Quality, Too Late, Improvement

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• Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

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  Quality, Management, Productivity

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• The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

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  Leadership, Creativity, Responsibility

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• Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror.

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  Mirrors, Views, Car

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• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

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  Good People, Systems Thinking, Good Person

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• Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

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  Jobs, Bad Jobs

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• Manage the cause, not the result.

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  Causes, Management, Results

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• To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts

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  Whole

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• A goal without a method is nonsense.

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  Goal, Management, Nonsense

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• Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

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  Keys, Understanding, Quality

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