W. Edwards Deming on Life
Browse 4 quotations attributed to W. Edwards Deming, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to W. Edwards Deming, entry #70237: "It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone."
Attributed to W. Edwards Deming, entry #100524: "Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better livi…"
4 Quotes by W. Edwards Deming on Life
"It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of a specific activity or method. It must always relate to a better life for everyone."
"Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer..."
"Loss of market begets unemployment. Emphasis has been on short-term profit, to the undernourishment of plans that might generate new product and service that would keep the company alive and provide jobs and more jobs. It is no longer socially acceptable performance to lose market and to dump hourly workers on to the heap of unemployed."
"Statistical methods had taken fire in America around 1942, following a series of ten-day intensive courses for engineers, initiated by Stanford University on a suggestion from this author. The war department also gave courses at factories of suppliers. Brilliant applications attracted much attention, but the flare of statistical methods by themselves, in an atmosphere in which management did not know their responsibilities, burned, sputtered, fizzled and died out."