quotes about Metrics
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At the moment, our society's notion of success is largely composed of two parts: money and power. But it's time for a third metric, beyond money and power - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder, and to give back.
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People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.
-- Chris Hughes -
Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.
-- Clayton ChristensenSource : Harvard Business Review, Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Clayton Christensen, Daniel Goleman (2014). “The HBRs 10 Must Reads Collection (12 Books) (HBRs 10 Must Reads)”, p.502, Harvard Business Review Press
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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 -
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry -
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 sales model.
-- Devon McDonald -
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
-- Eric HobsbawmSource : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
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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 -
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If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
-- Jesse Helms -
Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric.
-- Lincoln ChafeeSource : "Does Rick Perry deserve a second look from voters?". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2015.
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A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.
-- Noah Kagan -
All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.
-- Nolan Bushnell -
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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.
-- Randy Pausch -
The CIA estimates that Iraq probably has a few hundred metric tons of chemical weapons agents, for mustard gas, sarin, and other deadly concoctions. This is addition to an extensive capacity to produce biological weapons, including anthrax and ricin, which is fatal within 24 to 36 hours of exposure.
-- Richard Armitage -
Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
-- Russel Honore -
Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.
-- Sam Altman -
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Some critics have challenged what the return on investment is for engagement in social media. Others have complained that the metrics don't exist to demonstrate value.
-- Simon Mainwaring -
I think online is a better platform. If you look at the metrics, if you look at the delivery system, if you look at social - all of the things that online can do - TV can't compete.
-- Tom FrestonSource : "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.
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The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.
-- Vijay GovindarajanSource : "Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued" by Ron Ashkenas, www.forbes.com. July 24, 2013.
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If I collected all the diamonds in the world, I'd have no 'income' but I'd have a lot of 'assets'. Would my company be worth nothing because I have no income? A lot of Net companies are collecting assets. They have to be measured with a new set of metrics.
-- Vinod Khosla -
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The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.
-- Catherine O'Hara -
With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.
-- Jennifer Tour Chayes -
You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.
-- Keith Rabois -
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 a business better.
-- Keith Rabois -
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There are three objectives for content marketing: reach engagement conversion. Define key metrics for each.
-- Michael Brenner -
You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell.
-- Mitch HarperSource : "What Angel Investors Care About Most When They Make Investment Decisions". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2015.
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If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?
-- Gyles BrandrethSource : Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (1982). “More joy of lex: an amazing and amusing Z to A and A to Z of words”, William Morrow & Co
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If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.
-- Judith StoneSource : Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books
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