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One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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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 Deming

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

—W. Edwards Deming

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

—W. Edwards Deming

Plants don’t close from poor workmanship, but from poor management. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

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Management is prediction. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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Management is prediction.

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The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.

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What we need to do is learn to work in the system, W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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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.

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A leader’s job is to help his people. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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A leader's job is to help his people.

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Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

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To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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To optimize the whole, we must sub-optimize the parts

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Learning is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. Improvement is not compulsory; it’s voluntary. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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

—W. Edwards Deming

Management’s job is to know which systems are stable and which are not. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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Management's job is to know which systems are stable and which are not.

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Does experience help? NO! Not if we are doing the wrong things. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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

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Quality starts in the boardroom. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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Quality starts in the boardroom.

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There must be consistency in direction. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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There must be consistency in direction.

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I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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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

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Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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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?

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The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.

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It only takes a little innovation. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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It only takes a little innovation.

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A goal without a method is nonsense. W. Edwards Deming Picture Quote

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A goal without a method is nonsense.

—W. Edwards Deming