Kaoru Ishikawa quotes
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“As with many other things, there is a surprising amount of prejudice against quality control, but the proof of the pudding is still in the eating.”
-- Kaoru IshikawaSource : Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press
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“Failure is the seed of success”
-- Kaoru IshikawaSource : Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press
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“As much as 95% of quality related problems in the factory can be solved with seven fundamental quantitative tools.”
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“The ideas of control and improvements are often confused with one another. This is because quality control and quality improvement are inseparable.”
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“When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!”
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“In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.”
-- Kaoru IshikawaSource : "Quality Management Systems: A Practical Guide". Book by Howard S Gitlow, p.3, 2000.
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“Quality control starts and ends with training.”
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“Quality control is applicable to any kind of enterprise. In fact, it must be applied in every enterprise.”
-- Kaoru IshikawaSource : Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press
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“Quality control which cannot show results is not quality control. Let us engage in QC which makes so much money for the company that we do not know what to do with it.”
-- Kaoru Ishikawa
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“Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”
Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”
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“We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.”
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“Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices.”
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“The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.”
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Source : Kaoru Ishikawa (1990). “Introduction to Quality Control”, Productivity Press
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