W. Edwards Deming Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Learning, Knowledge, Two

• Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-respect, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. The forces of destruction begin with toddlers - a prize for the best Halloween costume, grades in school, gold stars - and on up through the university. On the job people, teams, and divisions are ranked, reward for the top, punishment for the bottom. Management by Objectives, quotas, incentive pay, business plans, put together separately, division by division, cause further loss, unknown and unknowable.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Stars, Jobs, Motivation

• There is no substitute for knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Knowledge, Substitutes

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 29 May 1988

• For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Knowledge, Fire

• Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Learning, Knowledge, Quota

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