Inspirational Quotes by W. Edwards Deming

Survival is optional. No one has to change.

— W. Edwards Deming

A goal without a method is nonsense.

— W. Edwards Deming

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

— W. Edwards Deming

The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable.

— W. Edwards Deming

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.

— W. Edwards Deming

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.

— W. Edwards Deming

All models are wrong; some models are useful.

— W. Edwards Deming

Management does not know what a system is.

— W. Edwards Deming

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

— W. Edwards Deming

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

— W. Edwards Deming

If you destroy the people of a company, you do not have much left.

— W. Edwards Deming

A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

— W. Edwards Deming

Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.

— W. Edwards Deming

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.

— W. Edwards Deming

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

— W. Edwards Deming

Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

— W. Edwards Deming

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

— W. Edwards Deming

The questions are more important than the answers.

— W. Edwards Deming

It's management's job to know.

— W. Edwards Deming

We are here to make another world.

— W. Edwards Deming

You can expect what you inspect.

— W. Edwards Deming

You can not hear what you do not understand.

— W. Edwards Deming

There is no substitute for knowledge.

— W. Edwards Deming

There must be consistency in direction.

— W. Edwards Deming

A leader is a coach, not a judge.

— W. Edwards Deming

Without theory, there are no questions.

— W. Edwards Deming

Quality starts in the boardroom.

— W. Edwards Deming

The most important things cannot be measured.

— W. Edwards Deming

A system can not understand itself.

— W. Edwards Deming

Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.

— W. Edwards Deming

The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong.

— W. Edwards Deming

The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable.

— W. Edwards Deming

Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.

— W. Edwards Deming

Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things.

— W. Edwards Deming

The customer is the most important part of the production line.

— W. Edwards Deming

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

— W. Edwards Deming

It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.

— W. Edwards Deming

Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.

— W. Edwards Deming

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

— W. Edwards Deming

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

— W. Edwards Deming