Metrics Quotes

Metrics Quote of the day

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

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

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.

What's measured improves

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.

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

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

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

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

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

Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.

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

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.

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.

You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.

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

Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.

If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.

It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's already under way.

With a metric you can really go to town, otherwise it is just abstract nonsense.

There are three objectives for content marketing: reach engagement conversion. Define key metrics for each.

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.

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.

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

You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

All schools will end up using game metrics in the future.

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

Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

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.

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

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

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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

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.

By any rational metric, I am boring.

When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.

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

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 metric.

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

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.

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

The Six Steps to Success: 1) Define Success 2) Devise a Plan 3) Execute and Overcome Adversity 4) Measure Results with Key Metrics 5) Revise the Plan 6) Work Hard

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

The only measurement I understand is perfection.