W. Edwards Deming Quotes

It would be Goddamned easy to run this office if you didn’t have to deal with people.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

Leaders are people who do the right thing: managers are people who do things right. Both roles are crucial, but they differ profoundly. I often observe people in top positions doing wrong things well.

The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

We use the word 'organization' to mean both the state of being organized and the groups that do the organizing.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest.

As CEO, my main job is editor-in-chief.

If something happened, like engineers starting to quit, things would go downhill fast.

There is no remedy for the inefficiency of public management.

Management does not know what a system is.

You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

Generally, management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization. And to control many is the same as to control few. This is a matter of formations and signals.