A. W. F. Edwards Quotes

Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.

Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.

One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.

Everything in life has let me down.

A goal without a method is nonsense.

With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Once I made the commitment to fully live my religion, it was never a problem.

Management of outcomes may not be any more than a skill. It does not require knowledge.

Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.

Mere allocation of huge sums of money for quality will not bring quality.

You can not plan to make a discovery. You do not plan innovation.

Judging people does not help them.

People need to know how their job contributes.

A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.

Shrink, shrink variation, to reduce the loss.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.

Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.

Does the customer invent new product or service? The customer generates nothing. No customer asked for electric lights. There was gas and gas mantles, which gave good light.

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

To live with all my might, while I do live

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

The biggest cost of poor quality is when your customer buys it from someone else because they didn't like yours.

From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

Sub-optimization is when everyone is for himself. Optimization is when everyone is working to help the company.

We know what we told him, but we don't know what he heard.

We must understand variation.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

The questions are more important than the answers.

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