Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn. W. Edwards Deming More Quotes by W. Edwards Deming More Quotes From W. Edwards Deming Judging people does not help them. W. Edwards Deming judging-peopledoehelping We have to bring back the individual. Management has smothered the individual. W. Edwards Deming individualmanagement Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company. W. Edwards Deming companymanagementhelping Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management. W. Edwards Deming poor-managementworkmanshipplant Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. W. Edwards Deming loyal-customersbusinessinspirational The process is not just the sum of its parts. W. Edwards Deming managementprocess A rule should suit the purpose. W. Edwards Deming suitspurposemanagement Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit. W. Edwards Deming best-effortpitshard-work The transformation will come from leadership. W. Edwards Deming transformationmanagement Management's job is to optimize the whole system. W. Edwards Deming wholemanagementjobs We must satisfy our customers. W. Edwards Deming customersmanagement Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn. W. Edwards Deming theorymanagement I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices. W. Edwards Deming managementpracticepeople The greatest losses are unknown and unknowable. W. Edwards Deming loss The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with. W. Edwards Deming aim-of-educationbornchildren The individual has been crushed by our style of management today. W. Edwards Deming stylemanagementtoday 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 Deming communityorganizationlong Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow. W. Edwards Deming handsamericathinking Any manager can do well in an expanding market. W. Edwards Deming expandingwellsmanagement There is no substitute for knowledge. W. Edwards Deming substitutesknowledge
