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Famous Deming Quotes

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival"
"A Numberical goal without a method is nonsense" Brian Joiner tribute
"There is no substitute for knowledge"
"No defects, no jobs. Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required." New Economics, page 10
"The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over the long term." New Economics, page 51
There is no instant pudding (for management)
People are entitled to joy in work. From the W. Edwards Deming Institute website (Dec 2006)
"the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable" Deming actually quoted Lloyd S. Nelson saying this in the Out of the Crisis page 121.
There is no knowledge without theory. From the W. Edwards Deming Institute website (Dec 2006)
Deming's Second Theorem: "We are being ruined by best efforts." From the W. Edwards Deming Institute website (Dec 2006)
In God we trust, all others bring data.

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