Metrics Quotes · Page 2

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

— Mark Twain

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

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

— Chelsea Clinton

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

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

— Keith Rabois

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

— David Kirkpatrick

If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my…

— Vinod Khosla

When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to…

— Simon Mainwaring

I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you…

— Tom Freston

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified…

— Bill Gates

I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk…

— Indra Nooyi

Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as…

— Scott D. Anthony

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our…

— Simon Sinek

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't…

— Keith Rabois

There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at…

— Arthur Laffer

The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other…

— Richard Armitage

Insulate yourself... from anonymous angry people Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand Precisely measure the results that are important to…

— Seth Godin

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

Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric - one founded on well-being,…

— Arianna Huffington

I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well…

— Jeff Bezos

“…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

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

— Capers Jones

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

— Eric Hobsbawm

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

— Ray Dalio

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

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

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

— Chris Hughes

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

— Pearl Zhu

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

— Mark Manson

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

— Eric Ries

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

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

— Ian Brodie

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

— Mitch Harper

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

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

— Berend van der Kolk