A Quote by W. Edwards Deming

Manage the cause, not the result.

W. Edwards Deming

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Cause Manage Result

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W. Edwards Deming
American - Scientist
October 14, 1900 - December 20, 1993

Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.

T. Harv Eker

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness, however, is not the result of any one single cause. It is the result of many ideal states of being grouped together into one harmonious whole.

Christian D. Larson

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

Will Durant

Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

Adolf Hitler

How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.

Gerry McGovern

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

Tony Blair

Profit is not a cause but a result-

Peter Drucker

Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama's naiveté during his final two years in office. As a result, America will be less safe as a result of the President's change in policy.

Marco Rubio

Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.

Jeff Hawkins

Faith is not the result of fuzy thinking. It is the cause of it.

Dan Barker

Let us look and see, then, how they manage their concerns - they for whose cause we are to labour, devote ourselves, and grow enthusiastic.

Max Stirner

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.