74 result(s) for W. Edwards Deming Quotes.
"In God we trust, all others bring data."
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
"Learning is not compulsory; neither is survival."
"If you cannot describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."
"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate to how life is better for everyone."
"Innovation comes from the producer – not from the customer."
"One of the Seven Deadly Diseases is 'running a company on visible figures alone.'"
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"It is not enough to put in energy, effort, and time. If you're working on the wrong things, you're putting in energy, effort, and time in vain."
"In God we trust; all others must bring data."
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
"You can expect what you inspect."
"Management by results is a very poor way to manage."
"It is not enough to do your best; you must first know what to do."
"Profit in business comes from repeat customers; customers that boast about your product and service, and that bring friends with them."
"Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, and of money."
"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."
"Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer."
"Good people are very hard to fire. Only you can make them do good work."
"At least 95% of problems are system driven and only about 5% are individual performance driven."
"Survival is optional. No one has to change."
"You can't manage what you don’t measure."
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"Change is not mandatory, survival is not mandatory."
"Effectiveness is a common-sense practice."
"Maintain, don’t mess."
"Focusing on quality will improve quality."
"The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!"
"Management is prediction."
"A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all."
"The most important things you need to manage can’t be measured."
"Drive out fear, so that everyone may work effectively for the company."
"Without data you're just another person with an opinion."
"Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service."
"Management by results, without theory of knowledge, is management by luck."
"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it."
"The most important things cannot be measured."
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"Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for massive inspection by building quality into the product in the first place."
"You don't have to change. Survival is not mandatory."
"Innovation comes from the producer, not the customer."
"The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people."
"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."
"Change is not necessary. Survival is not mandatory."
"By what method? There is no invisible method to management. The method is visible and it is found in the four interrelated parts of the system."
"Innovation comes not from executives or middle managers, but from the provider."
"Innovation comes from the producer - not the customer."
"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well."
"The most important things we manage are the things we don't measure."
"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate to a desired result."
"A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management."
"The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language."
"Learning is a natural thing. Consider how babies are, how they show interest in everything."
"If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing."
"By what method will you achieve your aim? You need a theory."
"New knowledge is not the goal in work, it is a means."
"Constant revision is the companion of creativity."
"In God we trust; all others bring data."
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
"Quality is everyone's responsibility."
"A bad system will beat a good person every time."
"Without data, you're just another person with an opinion."
"You can't manage what you can't measure."
"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
"It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best."
"There is no substitute for knowledge."
"The most important things we learn in schools are the things we learn after we leave."
"The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system cannot understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside."
"If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do anything."
"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs."
"The customer is the most important part of the production line."
"Innovation comes from the producer – not the customer."
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
"Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them."
"The customer's perception is your reality."
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