W. Edwards Deming Quotes - Famous Quotes by W. Edwards Deming
Born: 1900-10-14
Died: 1993-12-20
W. Edwards Deming Biography
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
- W. Edwards Deming
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It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
- W. Edwards Deming
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It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and *then* do your best.
- W. Edwards Deming
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
- W. Edwards Deming
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
- W. Edwards Deming
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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.
- W. Edwards Deming
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