Top 30 W E Deming Quotes

#1. Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

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#2. The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.

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#3. Knowledge is the key.

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#4. Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

Barbara Deming

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

Melissa De La Cruz

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#6. Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

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#7. Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.

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#8. We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

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#9. One need not be eminent in any part of profound knowledge in order to understand it and to apply it. The various segments of the system of profound knowledge cannot be separated. They interact with each other. For example knowledge about psychology is incomplete without knowledge of variation.

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#10. A person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

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#11. We should be guided by theory, not by numbers.

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#12. I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

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#13. Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

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#14. I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special

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#15. Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.

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#16. A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

Barbara Deming

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#17. 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.

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#18. Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

Barbara Deming

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#19. I'm a geophysicist who has conducted and published climate studies in top-rank scientific journals. My perspective on Mr. Inhofe and the issue of global warming is informed not only by my knowledge of climate science but also by my studies of the history and philosophy of science.

David Deming

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#20. A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.

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#21. It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

Barbara Deming

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#22. Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don't have as much to sell. Your workers don't want to be paid less, so to maintain profits, you increase your prices. That's inflation.

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#23. Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.

David Deming

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#24. Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

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#25. In God we trust; all others bring data.

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#26. Survival is optional. No one has to change.

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#27. The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

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#28. No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.

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#29. The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

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#30. Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with.

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