W. Edwards Deming Quotes - Page 8

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• Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

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  Zero, Management, Highways

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• Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer.

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  Loss, Design, Wish

  "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 175, 1982.

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• Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

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  Management, Theory

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• Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation.

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  Motivation, Rewards, Management

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• Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes.

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  Confusing, Special, Causes

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• One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.

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  Order, Profound, Psychology

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• A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

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  Management, Predictions, Theory

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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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  Statistics, Action, Predictions

  Journal of the American Statistical Association Quoted in W.A. Wallis' The Statistical Research Group, 1942-1945 Volume 75, Number 370, June 19 (p. 321)

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• Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

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  Skills, Doe, May

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• Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

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  Talking, Quality, Gains

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• The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.

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  Jobs, Quality, Please

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• When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

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  Giving Up, People, Wish

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• Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay

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  Quality, Cost, Machines

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• Adopt a new philosophy of cooperation (win-win) in which everybody wins.

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  Philosophy, Winning, Cooperation

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• We must understand variation.

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  Variation, Management

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• The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.

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  Giving, Lucky, Needs

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• People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system.

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  People, Care, Management

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• A rule should suit the purpose.

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  Purpose, Suits, Management

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• We must satisfy our customers.

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  Management, Customers

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• Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!

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  Accountability, Ridiculous

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• Knowledge is the key.

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  Keys, Management

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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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  Views, Style, Management

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• The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

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  Organization, Important, Management

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• Management does not know what a system is.

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  Doe, Management, Knows

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• When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.

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  Training, Helping, Management

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