W. Edwards Deming Quotes

I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature. For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

We're reviewing everything to see how we can do it better, faster, and more efficiently.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

No altered system will work a miracle. Any wild experiment will only add to the confusion. Our best assurance lies in efficient administration of our proven system

I think any time you increase focus, increase speed, all those are going to help any business.

To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn plant.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.

In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

I will be ruthless in cutting out waste, streamlining structures and improving efficiency.

The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.

A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

Productivity depends on many factors, including our workforce's knowledge and skills and the quantity and quality of the capital, technology, and infrastructure that they have to work with.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.

It's not about working harder; it's about working the system.

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

One of the ways I think you make more money is by creating more efficiency.

Many Western nations have made significant gains through automation and operational excellence, while emerging markets rely on ever-increasing numbers of workers. Each will improve their competitive position only by examining every element of operations to make existing resources more efficient and to deliver real value at lower cost.