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Don't just make it and try to sell it. But redesign it and then bring the process under control with ever-increasing quality.

Out of the Crisis (1992)
Quality is characteristic of a product or service that helps somebody and which has a market.

Out of the Crisis (1992)
All products must be seen as experiments.

Relationship Marketing (1991)
The important product comparisons come from people in the marketplace.

The Regis Touch (1986)
A successful product merely gives us a head start in the race.

Managing to Survive (1993)
I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.
The annals of business are filled with stories of companies that thought they had it made and could milk their enterprises without having to bother about improving their products or services. It's amazing how fast they found their markets disappearing.
Twenty four out of twenty five new products never get out of test markets.

Confessions of an Advertising Man (1963)
We in the U.S. have a problem or, if you will, an opportunity to break away from technological traditions and to find really new and better ways of making products for the markets of the world.
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