5. “Quality is a customer determination, not an
engineer's determination, not a marketing
determination, or a general management
determination. It is based upon the customer's actual
experience with the product or service, measured
against his/her requirements - stated or unstated,
conscious or merely sensed - and always represents
a moving target.”
-- Armand V. Feigenbaum
10. “The new way is to teach and
help your men as you would
a brother; try to teach him
the best way and show him
the easiest way to do his
work.”
-- Frederick Winslow Taylor
11. “I can say, without the
slightest hesitation, that the
science of handling pig-iron
is so great that the man who
is ... physically able to
handle pig-iron and is
sufficiently phlegmatic and
stupid to choose this for his
occupation is rarely able to
comprehend the science of
handling pig-iron.”
-- Frederick Winslow Taylor
12. “We will win, and you will lose. You cannot do anything
because your failure is an internal disease. Your
companies are based on Taylor’s principles. Worse, your
heads are Taylorized, too. You firmly believe that sound
management means executives on the one side and
workers on the other, on the one side men who think and
on the other side men who only work.”
-- Konusuke Matsushita