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“Money and time spent for training will be ineffective unless inhibitors to good work are removed.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis

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“Divided responsibility means that nobody is responsible.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis

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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”
― Martin Fowler

tags: code-smells, codes, programming, refactoring

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#6

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
― Peter F. Drucker

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“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
― Peter Drucker

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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker, The Essential Drucker: Management, the Individual and Society

tags: leadership

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“To manage, one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis

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“Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.”
― W. Edwards Deming, What would Deming do?: Nurture great organizations and societies guided by W. Edwards Deming's best quotes

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“The transformation can only be accomplished by man, not by hardware (computers, gadgets, automation, new machinery). A company can not buy its way into quality.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crises

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“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker

tags: leadership

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“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: coaching, mentoring, teaching, training

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#14

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
― Peter Drucker

tags: knowldege

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“Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. ”
― Peter Drucker

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“The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.”
― Peter F. Drucker, Managing the Non-Profit Organization: Principles and Practices

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#17

“Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.”
― Charles T. Munger, Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

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#18

“I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do”
― Charlie Munger

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#19

“Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you’re trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn’t remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?”
― Charles T. Munger

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#20

“It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.”
― Charles T. Munger

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“Above all, never fool yourself, and remember that you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

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#22

“the acquisition of wisdom is a moral duty.”
― Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

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#23

“Own your work and compound credibility.”
― Charles T. Munger

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#24

“Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.”
― W. Edwards Deming

tags: data

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“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.”
― W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education

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“The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!”
― W. Edwards Deming

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#27

“Blame the process, not the people.”
― W. Edwards Deming

tags: process

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#28

“Truth is stranger than fiction.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis

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#29

“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
― W. Edwards Deming

tags: education

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#30

“As long as management is quick to take credit for a firm’s successes but equally swift to blame its workers for its failures, no surefire remedy for low productivity can be expected in American manufacturing and service industries.”
― W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crises

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