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A chunk is a convenient slice of a population.

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Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

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The customer is the most important part of the production line.

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The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

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A questionnaire is never perfect: some are simply better than others.

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Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

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Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

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A good sample-design is lost if it is not carried out according to plans.

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Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.

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... the principle that where there is fear, there will be wrong figures....

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There is only one kind of whiskey, but two broad classes of data, good and bad.

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Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.

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What is the variation trying to tell us about a process, about the people in the process?

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It is wrong to suppose that if you can't measure it, you can't manage it – a costly myth

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

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

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No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.

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

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A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.

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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

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It is important to realize that it is not the one measurement, alone, but its relation to the rest of the sequence that is of interest.

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I think that people here expect miracles. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan—but they don't know what to copy!

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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.

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Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

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Sampling is the science and art of controlling and measuring the reliability of useful statistical information through the theory of probability.

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You need not be a mathematical statistician to do good statistical work, but you will need the guidance of a first class mathematical statistician.

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The prevailing style of management must undergo transformation. A system can not understand itself. The transformation requires a view from outside.

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The minute a statistician steps into the position of the executive who must make decisions and defend them, the statistician ceases to be a statistician.

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