W E Deming Quotes & Sayings

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another. — Barbara Deming

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