W. Edwards Deming Quotes - Page 6

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• Confusing common causes with special causes will only make things worse.

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  Confusing, Special, Causes

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• You can expect what you inspect.

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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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  Joy, Flow, Management

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• You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

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  Discovery, Innovation, Management

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• I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan - but they don't know what to copy!

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  Thinking, Japan, People

  "NBC White Paper (If Japan Can... Why Can't We?)". TV Series, June 24, 1980.

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• Experience by itself teaches nothing.

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  Teach

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

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  Average, Time Management, Fifty

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• We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

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  Numbers, Management, Should

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• The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

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  Jobs, Business Success, Quality

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• He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

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  Leadership, Running, Figures

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini, Diana (edited by) Deming Cahill (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, p.17, McGraw Hill Professional

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• A man who knows not his limitations is of no use to anyone.

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  Men, Use, Knows

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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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  Economy, Produce, Operations

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• It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

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  Life, Leadership, Important

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• 3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.

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  Management, Problem, Figures

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• Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

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  Poor Management, Plant, Workmanship

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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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  Forever, Quality, Cost

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

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  Individual, Project Management, Process

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• People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

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  Motivation, Self Esteem, Learning

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• Change the rule and you will get a new number.

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  Numbers, Management

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• You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.

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  Management, Improvement, Constant

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• To successfully respond to the myriad of changes that shake the world, transformation into a new style of management is required. The route to take is what I call profound knowledge, knowledge for leadership of transformation.

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  Profound, Style, World

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• The process is not just the sum of its parts.

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  Management, Process

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• Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.

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  Competition, Share, Should

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• It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.

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  Country, Mistake, Friendly

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• The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.

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  Loss

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