W. Edwards Deming Quotes

"You should not ask questions without knowledge."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Knowledge, Questions)

"You can not define being exactly on time."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Time, Being)

"Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Fear, Will, Wrong)

"When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Mistakes)

"We are here to make another world."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: World)

"The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Work, American, Day, Nothing)

"The emphasis should be on why we do a job."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Job)

"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Business, Friends, Profit, Project, Service)

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Survival, Learning)

"Lack of knowledge... that is the problem."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Knowledge)

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Change, Survival)

"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Management, Objectives)

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

"Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Customer, Innovation)

"If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Nothing, Question, Right)

"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."
- W. Edwards Deming

"Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!"
- W. Edwards Deming

"The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Quality, Relationships, Result)

"All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Work, Chance, Pride)

"Any manager can do well in an expanding market."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Manager)

"Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action."
- W. Edwards Deming
(Related: Action, Behavior, Theory)