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Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.
Sep 28, 2025
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
The late W. Edwards Deming, guru of Quality management, once declared, 'The most important things we need to manage can't be measured.' If that’s true of what we need to manage, it should be even more obvious that it’s true of what we need to teach.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
The two greatest role models in my professional career were Walt Disney and Dr. Deming. Dr. Deming was the Father of Total Quality Management and the person who redefined quality for the entire world.
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
The more you hardwire a company on total quality management, the more it is going to hurt breakthrough innovation.
The potential of this nation is as boundless as the imagination and drive of the American people. . . . Quality management is not just a step. It must be a new style of working. Even a new style of thinking. The dedication to quality and excellence is more than good business; it's a way of life.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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