Figures Quote by W. Edwards Deming

One cannot be successful on visible figures alone ... the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable, but successful…

— W. Edwards Deming

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent.

— Norbert Wiener

One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.

— Eliphas Levi

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown.

— Chris Crutcher

There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.

— Gary Marcus

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

— Lou Holtz

At a very basic level, people need to know that there is constancy in their jobs and, more broadly, in where the organization is…

— Tom Rath

The value of an aware is inextricably linked to the character of the organization presenting it.

— William Barr

It's management's job to know.

— W. Edwards Deming

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

— Anne Wilson Schaef

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

— Peter Drucker