Metrics Quotes · Page 2

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

— Keith Rabois

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

— Berend van der Kolk

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Gyles Brandreth

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

— Mitch Harper

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

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

— Eric Ries

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

— Mark Manson

“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

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

— Adrian Davis

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

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

— Stewart Butterfield

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

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

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

— Jeffrey Hollender

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

— Clayton Christensen

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

— Violeta Parra

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

— Arianna Huffington

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

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

— Benjamin Carson

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

— Nipsey Hussle

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

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Ian Brodie

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

— Chris Hughes

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

— Sam Altman

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

Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.

— Lincoln Chafee

Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will…

— Simon Sinek

Of course Evil's afoot. If it had switched to the metric system it'd be up to a meter by now.

— Jim Butcher

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

— Pooja Agnihotri

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

— Walt Mossberg

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

— Jesse Helms

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

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Brad Feld