Survival is optional. No one has to change. W. Edwards Deming More Quotes by W. Edwards Deming More Quotes From W. Edwards Deming Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems. W. Edwards Deming problemmanagementhelping Change the rule and you will get a new number. W. Edwards Deming managementnumbers You can not define being exactly on time. W. Edwards Deming can-not A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition. W. Edwards Deming competitionselfishworld People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing. W. Edwards Deming examplepeoplelooks Monetary rewards are not a substitute for intrinsic motivation. W. Edwards Deming rewardsmotivationmanagement People care more for themselves when they contribute to the system. W. Edwards Deming caremanagementpeople It's management's job to know. W. Edwards Deming managementknowsjobs When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering. W. Edwards Deming qualitymanagementmistake A system can not understand itself. W. Edwards Deming can-not You do not install knowledge. W. Edwards Deming management Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned; it must be led. W. Edwards Deming transformation 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 Deming errorsbusinessimagination Without theory, there are no questions. W. Edwards Deming theory Without theory we can only copy. W. Edwards Deming copiestheorymanagement We are here for an education. W. Edwards Deming management Profit in business comes from repeat customers W. Edwards Deming great-customer-serviceloyal-customersfocus-in-business Any two people have different ideas of what is important. W. Edwards Deming twopeopleideas He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain. W. Edwards Deming qualitysufferingyears The most important measures are both unknown and unknowable. W. Edwards Deming important
