Competitors Quote by Eric Ries

Vanity metrics can be discouraging especially since it's really easy for projects with large budgets to loads of money on marketing and ad buys.

— Jonita Gandhi

“Qualitative versus quantitative metrics Qualitative metrics are unstructured, anecdotal, revealing, and hard to aggregate; quantitative metrics involve numbers and statistics, and provide hard numbers…

— Alistair Croll

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

— Stewart Butterfield

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 necessarily make…

— Keith Rabois

Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

— Ishmael Butler

Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When you have a lot of success you don't need vanity any more.

— Amelie Nothomb

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

— Walt Mossberg

I'm metrics-based.

— Jamie S. Miller

We tell our portfolio companies that it's really important to be metrics-driven and to track their conversions. It goes back to building that scalable…

— Devon McDonald

We shouldn't be too hard on vanity. It can be a mark of respect for the world.

— Howard Jacobson