Excellence Quote by W. Edwards Deming Download Open image “Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.” — W. Edwards Deming ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellence Improvement Inspection Process Productions Quality
Inspection with the aim of finding the bad ones and throwing them out is too late, ineffective, and costly. Quality comes not from inspection… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
We cannot rely on mass inspection to improve quality, though there are times when 100 percent inspection is necessary. As Harold S. Dodge said… — 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 in the… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The surest foundation of a manufacturing concern is quality. After that, and a long way after, comes cost. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You cannot inspect quality into the product; it is already there. — 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 allow. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it. — Phil Crosby Copy Share Image
Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them… — Anonymous Copy Share
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
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile.… — Alan Kulwicki Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
