Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Kaoru Ishikawa

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Last updated on December 19, 2024.

Kaoru Ishikawa was a Japanese organizational theorist and a professor in the engineering faculty at the University of Tokyo noted for his quality management innovations. He is considered a key figure in the development of quality initiatives in Japan, particularly the quality circle. He is best known outside Japan for the Ishikawa or cause and effect diagram, often used in the analysis of industrial processes.

July 13, 1915 - April 16, 1989

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As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.

Kaoru Ishikawa

Quality control starts and ends with training.

Kaoru Ishikawa

The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.

Kaoru Ishikawa

Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.

Kaoru Ishikawa

Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.

Kaoru Ishikawa

When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!

Kaoru Ishikawa

Failure is the seed of success

Kaoru Ishikawa

In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.

Kaoru Ishikawa

As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.

Kaoru Ishikawa