Picture Quotes One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Management is prediction. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes A leader's job is to help his people. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it's voluntary. But to survive, we must learn. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Quality starts in the boardroom. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes There must be consistency in direction. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing? —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes It only takes a little innovation. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes A goal without a method is nonsense. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The problem is that most courses teach what is wrong. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The principles and methods for improvement are the same for service as for manufacturing. The actual application differs, of course, from one product to another, and from one type of service to another. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We should be guided by theory, not by numbers. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 place. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes A leader is a coach, not a judge. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Manage the cause, not the result. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Experience by itself teaches nothing. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes People are entitled to joy in work. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Without theory, there are no questions. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes All models are wrong; some models are useful. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Meeting specifications is not enough. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on the part of the producer, backed by enough capital to develop the product or service and to stay in business during the learn months of introduction. —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force —W. Edwards DemingWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this