E W Deming Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy reading and share 30 famous quotes about E W Deming with everyone.
Top E W Deming Quotes
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
Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge. — W. Edwards Deming
I had wanted for so many years to feel that writing really was at the center of my life, not something I did in my spare time. So the writing and teaching feel in some way to be one thing - the personal engagement and the social engagement good partners. — Alison Hawthorne Deming
If someone can make a contribution to the company he feels important. — W. Edwards Deming
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
You do not install quality; you begin to work at it. — W. Edwards Deming
Anyone that enjoys his work is a pleasure to work with. — W. Edwards Deming
There should be no censorship of mail. — Barbara Deming
The greatest waste ... is failure to use the abilities of people ... to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make. — W. Edwards Deming
Management is prediction. — W. Edwards Deming
The questions are more important than the answers. — W. Edwards Deming
Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer. — W. Edwards Deming
I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual. — Alison Hawthorne Deming
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride. — W. Edwards Deming
A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system. — W. Edwards Deming
The customer is the most important part of the production line. — W. Edwards Deming
Quality starts in the boardroom. — W. Edwards Deming
There is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change. — Barbara Deming
Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality. — W. Edwards Deming
Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity. — W. Edwards Deming
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
Learning is not cumpulsory ... neither is survival. — W. Edwards Deming
Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line. — W. Edwards Deming
In God we trust; all others must bring data. — W. Edwards Deming
Management does not know what a system is. — W. Edwards Deming
There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds. — Alison Hawthorne Deming
We are here to learn, to make a difference and to have fun. — W. Edwards Deming
We must satisfy our customers. — W. Edwards Deming
The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer. — W. Edwards Deming