Metrics Quotes · Page 2

You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.

— Mitch Harper

“Establish clear metrics to make certain that you are following your plan.”

— Ray Dalio

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

— Eric Hobsbawm

There are three objectives for content marketing: reach engagement conversion. Define key metrics for each.

— Michael Brenner

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.

— Clayton Christensen

G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

— Keith Rabois

It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's…

— Steve Denning

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the…

— Donna Shalala

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my…

— Adam Savage

Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are…

— Stewart Butterfield

I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul.…

— Jon Stewart

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful…

— Gordon Bethune

Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this…

— Capers Jones

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be…

— Naveen Jain

The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or…

— Bjorn Lomborg

One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work…

— Charlie Munger

In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value…

— Thomas Pogge

One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer…

— Bruce Hoffman

I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses…

— Jeffrey Hollender

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a…

— John Perry Barlow

The studies I've seen about readability and legibility tend to focus on a specific set of metrics: size, not just the point…

— Michael Bierut

Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead…

— Violeta Parra

“…I came to understand that while many of us might default to measuring our lives by summary statistics, such as number of…

— Clayton Christensen

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

— Chelsea Clinton

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

— Capers Jones

“This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service’s success was how often users returned.”

— David Kirkpatrick

If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.

— Jesse Helms

There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.

— Walt Mossberg

“A discontent employee means not getting the results 100% and the loss of a company advocate as well.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

“Once we have centralized our logs, we can transform them into metrics by”

— Gene Kim

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

— Judith Stone

“IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator.”

— Pearl Zhu

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

— Mark Twain

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

— Jennifer Tour Chayes

That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.

— Brad Feld

“Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.”

— Pearl Zhu

The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can…

— Larry Wilmore

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

— Russel Honore

You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

— Sam Altman