Inspirational Quotes by Joseph Juran (American Quality Scholar)

Joseph Moses Juran (1904–2008) was a Romanian-born American engineer and management consultant. An evangelist for quality and quality management, he wrote several influential books on those subjects.

Born in Brăila, Romania, Juran moved with his family to America to escape poverty and anti-Semitism. The family settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Juran got an electrical engineering degree from the University of Minnesota and joined Western Electric’s Hawthorne Works, got trained in the growing field of statistical quality control. He later obtained a law degree from Loyola University, although he never practiced law.

Juran’s productive career spanned over three-quarters of a century—first as a faculty of New York University and later as a management consultant. The first edition of Juran’s Quality Control Handbook (1951) inspired the budding Japanese quality movement. In 1954, he embarked on a lecture tour of Japan, where chief executives of large companies attended his lectures. (W. Edwards Deming inspired the use of statistical process control.)

Juran founded the Juran Institute in 1979, focusing on training and consulting services in quality management, lean manufacturing management, and business process management. He is known mainly for advocating the concepts of the Pareto principle and the Juran trilogy (quality planning, quality control, and quality improvement.)

Juran wrote hundreds of papers, speeches, and dozens of other books, including Quality Planning and Analysis (1970) and Planning for Quality (1988.)

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