Metrics Quotes

I'm metrics-based.

— Jamie S. Miller

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

— Salvador Dali

By any rational metric, I am boring.

— John Oliver

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

— Billy Eichner

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

— Anonymous

“The only measurement I understand is perfection.”

— Amit Kalantri

All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.

— Nolan Bushnell

“You’ve got good metrics on that?” She”

— Evan Ronan

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

— Mark Twain

“This focus on improving an indicator while losing sight of the original goal is what I call indicatorism.”

— Berend van der Kolk

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

— Noah Kagan

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

— Keith Rabois

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

— Douglas Coupland

Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you…

— Ian Brodie

“Our values determine the metrics by which we measure ourselves and everyone else.”

— Mark Manson

“Performance metrics are number in context, results related to the strategic goals of the business.”

— Pearl Zhu

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

— Eric Ries

“We refer to this set of selected metrics as A-O-R rather than R-O-A because it emphasizes Activities as the drivers of the…

— Jason Jordan

I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there…

— Lela Loren

Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming…

— Rene Carayol

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure…

— Grover Norquist

Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly…

— Adrian Davis

“Build great metrics. Metrics show how the machine is working by providing numbers and setting off alert lights in a dashboard. Metrics…

— Ray Dalio

At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a…

— Arianna Huffington

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race?…

— Greg Gutfeld

Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. [Inspiration is] the metric that dictates whether or not a project…

— Nipsey Hussle

“To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric,…

— Arianna Huffington

I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it…

— Benjamin Carson

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…

— James Clerk Maxwell

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen,…

— Clayton Christensen

Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax…

— Arthur Laffer

The weightlifting competition I saw was the women's 63 kg class. I'm not sure whether this means the actual women weighed 63…

— Dave Barry

Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has…

— Ben Parr

Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

— Sam Altman

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

— Catherine O'Hara

18-to-49 can only be part of the story. There are many more metrics.

— Nina Tassler

I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.

— Greg Gutfeld

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

— Chris Hughes

If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?

— Gyles Brandreth

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb