Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and… — 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
“Thought Leadership “The new economics for industry, government, education” Book by W. Edwards Deming “In God we trust. All others must bring… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. — 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
Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
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 Image
