Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The most basic problem is that performance appraisals often don't accurately assess performance. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this:… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
“It is not enough to just do your best or work hard; You must know what to work on.” — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share
