The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
Barbara Deming
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EDWARDS DEMING The emphasis should be on why we do a job. W. EDWARDS DEMING We are here to make another world. W. EDWARDS DEMING People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if th... W. EDWARDS DEMING Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. W. EDWARDS DEMING Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. EDWARDS DEMING Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival. W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is everyone's responsibility. W. EDWARDS DEMING The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer. W. EDWARDS DEMING In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really though... W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality is everyone's responsibility. W. EDWARDS DEMING Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, ... W. EDWARDS DEMING No one knows the cost of a defective product - don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replac... 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EDWARDS DEMING The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place. W. EDWARDS DEMING The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace. W. EDWARDS DEMING It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate ... W. EDWARDS DEMING What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every... W. EDWARDS DEMING If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. EDWARDS DEMING Quality starts in the boardroom. W. EDWARDS DEMING There is a penalty for ignorance. We are paying through the nose. W. EDWARDS DEMING There must be consistency in direction. W. EDWARDS DEMING You can not define being exactly on time. W. EDWARDS DEMING It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding. W. EDWARDS DEMING If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. W. 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