Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.
W. Edwards DemingRead
It is a mistake to assume that if everybody does his job, it will be all right. The whole system may be in trouble.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes that individual effort alone does not guarantee overall success and that systemic issues may still exist.
W. Edwards Deming's quote highlights the misconception that if each person performs their assigned tasks, the entire organization or system will function smoothly. It stresses the importance of looking beyond individual contributions and recognizing that the interconnections within a system can lead to broader challenges that need to be addressed collectively for true success.
Themes
SystemTeamworkCollaborationSuccessEffort
In practice
Example use cases
In a business meeting discussing project outcomes, one could use this quote to emphasize the need for holistic strategies.
More from W. Edwards Deming
All quotes βThe job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
W. Edwards DemingRead
Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.
W. Edwards DemingRead
Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.
W. Edwards DemingRead
Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.
W. Edwards DemingRead
Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.
W. Edwards DemingRead
Similar quotes
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.
James MonroeRead
But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRead
Everything is full and pure at its source and precisely there, not outside.
Meister EckhartRead
I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.
Wole SoyinkaRead
For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
Malcolm GladwellRead
Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.
Thomas HobbesRead