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{{a|devil|}}Unfairly remembered mainly for a trite observation about [[data]],<ref>“In God we trust, all others must bring data.”</ref> Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the time — though somewhat out of print now — but we seem, unwisely, to have forgotten them:
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:—W. Edwards Deming}}Unfairly remembered mainly for a trite observation about [[data]],<ref>“In God we trust, all others must bring data.”</ref> — we prefer the one above — Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the time — though somewhat out of print now — but we seem, unwisely, to have forgotten them:


Here are 14 principles — actually, 13, since one seems to be repeated — to improve a business. They were first presented in Deming’s book {{br|Out of the Crisis}}.
Here are 14 principles — actually, 13, since one seems to be repeated — to improve a business. They were first presented in Deming’s book {{br|Out of the Crisis}}.