W. Edwards Deming Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about: Leadership

• Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  "Deming: The Way We Knew Him". Book by Frank Voehl, February 28, 1995.

• The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Jobs, Pride

• The most valuable "currency" of any organization is the initiative and creativity of its members. Every leader has the solemn moral responsibility to develop these to the maximum in all his people. This is the leader's highest priority.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Creativity, Responsibility

• To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, People, Responsible

• It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Life, Leadership, Important

• He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Running, Figures

  W. Edwards Deming, Joyce (edited by) Orsini, Diana (edited by) Deming Cahill (2012). “The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality”, p.17, McGraw Hill Professional

• A leader is a coach, not a judge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Judging, Leader

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