W. Edwards Deming quotes and sayings
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- All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
- Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
- The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
- If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
- People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
- Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
- The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
- Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
- The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.