W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

Business, Friends, Service

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
W. Edwards Deming

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming

Change, Survival, Necessary

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming

Process, Describe

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
W. Edwards Deming

Work, Pride, Chance

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
W. Edwards Deming

Nothing, Question, Ask

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming

Learning, Survival, Neither

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. Edwards Deming

Work, Nothing, American

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.
W. Edwards Deming

Result, Quality, Costs

Quality is everyone's responsibility.
W. Edwards Deming

Everyone, Quality

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
W. Edwards Deming

Action, Behavior, Theory

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
W. Edwards Deming

Fear, Wrong, Whenever

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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Market, Manager, Expanding

Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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Everybody, Hold, Ridiculous

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
W. Edwards Deming

Knowledge, Problem, Lack

You should not ask questions without knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming

Knowledge, Ask, Questions

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
W. Edwards Deming

Management, Objectives, Eliminate

Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
W. Edwards Deming

Innovation, Customer, Producer

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
W. Edwards Deming

Job, Why, Emphasis

We are here to make another world.
W. Edwards Deming

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
W. Edwards Deming

Mistakes, System, Telling

You can not define being exactly on time.
W. Edwards Deming

Time, Define, Exactly

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: October 14, 1900

Died: December 20, 1993

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