A Quote by W. Edwards Deming

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

W. Edwards Deming

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Business Key Key To Success Quality Success Understanding Variation

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

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.

Robert M. Pirsig

Social enables word of mouth at an unprecedented scale. Its most powerful effect, through reviews and recommendations, is to put product quality and value for money as the key to success in commerce. Social brings a level of transparency that prevents marketers from advertising their way to success without underlying product quality.

Roelof Botha

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

Robert M. Pirsig

I believe the American dream is still alive and that education and entrepreneurship together are its key enablers. Through the years I have observed the power of this combination when the two forces work in tandem. Together they lead to personal success, business success, and societal success.

Ralph de la Vega

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Herman Cain

The Fundamental Regulator Paradox ... The task of a regulator is to eliminate variation, but this variation is the ultimate source of information about the quality of its work. Therefore, the better the job a regulator does the less information it gets about how to improve.

Gerald Weinberg

I have never known a concern to make a decided success that did not do good, honest work, and even in these days of fiercest competition, when everything would seem to be a matter of price, there lies still at the root of great business success the very much more important factor of quality. The effect of attention to quality, upon every man in the service, from the president of the concern down to the humblest laborer, cannot be overestimated.

Andrew Carnegie

Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.

Ivanka Trump

As quickly as it started, our business model evaporated. But while Traf-O-Data was technically a business failure, the understanding of microprocessors we absorbed was crucial to our future success.

Paul Allen

Integrity is the human quality most necessary to business success.

John C. Maxwell

Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality.

W. Edwards Deming

The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

Masaru Ibuka

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Robert Kiyosaki

Fun is at the core of the way I like to do business and it has been key to everything I've done from the outset. More than any other element, fun is the secret of Virgin's success. I am aware that the ideas of business as being fun and creative goes right against the grain of convention, and it's certainly not how the they teach it at some of those business schools, where business means hard grind and lots of 'discounted cash flows' and net' present values'.

Richard Branson

We want to have a diverse workforce that mirrors our customer base. Diversity of thought, we believe, is crucial to business success. We also are a tech company. And when we look at the skills that we need going forward, software engineers, electrical engineers, strong technology backgrounds, that's key for success as well.