The Essential Deming Quotes

“Performance of management should be measured by potential to stay in business, to protect investment, to ensure future dividends and jobs through improvement of product and service for the future, not by the quarterly dividend.”
― W. Edwards Deming, The Essential Demming (PB): Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

“Management of a system, cooperation between components, not competition. Management of people.”
― W. Edwards Deming, The Essential Demming (PB): Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality

“Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, and of machine-time, all of which raise the manufacturer’s cost and price that the purchaser must pay. The consumer is not always willing to subsidize this waste. The inevitable result is loss of market. Loss of market begets unemployment.”
― W. Edwards Deming, The Essential Demming (PB): Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality