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Quality Quotes by W. Edwards Deming
- Quality is everyone's responsibility.
- The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
- For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
- Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.
- Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first…
- Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system allow.
- 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…
- Quality starts in the boardroom.
- Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all…
- Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.
- Quality is pride of workmanship.
- The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
- What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom.…
- In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world…
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