Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system… — 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
Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification:… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to… — 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
