Top 30 W E Deming Quotes
#1. Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.
W. Edwards Deming
#2. The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place.
W. Edwards Deming
#4. Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
#5. She had chosen him; she had made him hers. She had done it out of love and duty. -Deming
Melissa De La Cruz
#6. Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.
W. Edwards Deming
#8. We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.
W. Edwards Deming
#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.
W. Edwards Deming
#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.
W. Edwards Deming
#12. I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#13. Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.
W. Edwards Deming
#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
W. Edwards Deming
#15. Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
W. Edwards Deming
#16. A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.
Barbara Deming
#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.
W. Edwards Deming
#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
#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
#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.
W. Edwards Deming
#23. Global warming has long since passed from scientific hypothesis to the realm of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.
David Deming
#27. The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
W. Edwards Deming
#28. No one has all the answers. Fortunately, it is not necessary to have all the answers for good management.
W. Edwards Deming
#29. The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!
W. Edwards Deming
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