Best Deming Quotes

#1. I believe that, the prevailing system of management is, at its core, dedicated to mediocrity. It forces people to work harder and harder to compensate for failing to tap the spirit and collective intelligence that characterizes working together at their best. Deming saw this clearly,

Peter M. Senge

#2. She had chosen him; she had made him hers. She had done it out of love and duty. -Deming

Melissa De La Cruz

#3. The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that's true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it's true of what we need to teach.

Alfie Kohn

#4. No-one can put in his best performance unless he feels secure," Deming wrote,

Julian Birkinshaw

#5. Transformation begins with the individual Dr William Edwards Deming
The New Economics - 1993

Priyavrat Thareja

#6. The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

Akio Morita

#7. W. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, taught that any time the majority of the people behave a particular way the majority of the time, the people are not the problem. The problem is inherent in the system.2 As a leader, you own responsibility for the system.

Chris McChesney

#8. It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. - W. Edwards Deming

Joseph Grenny

#9. After you defined Quality, it was the turn of quantity. Now apply judicious quality control. Select what can be improved? Strive for achieving the perceived Quality as above. Practically, a virtuous circle to this Quality is followed through deploying Deming's PDSA

Priyavrat Thareja