Data Quote by Stewart Butterfield

“The weak hype of analytics without the stronghold of conversions to sales and profits is not something to promote. Stop hyping the online numbers…

— Loren Weisman

Personally, I'm not a fan of analytics. Obviously it has its benefits, but there are a lot of things you can't measure in numbers.

— Josh Hart

No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of users as…

— Jose Ferreira

The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?

— Bill Lee

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

— Keith Rabois

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

— Nate Silver

“As soon as the numbers get up in a chart - or better yet, a graph - as soon as they thus become blessed…

— Geoffrey A. Moore

Too often in business, only financial data is gathered - and then it is distributed only to management. Other key indicators that relate to…

— Ken Blanchard

“These data rarely exist in one place in the organization so you’ll need to pull in people from multiple functions such as marketing, sales,…

— McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum

“Since it is all based on statistics, the size of the company’s database is the key to making accurate predictions”

— Yuval Noah Harari

I ask people what they do in sales, how much money they made last year, what their cost of sales is, and they don't…

— Tilman J. Fertitta

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

— Eric Ries