Metrics Quotes

• In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds ... that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the royal cubit of the Temple of Karnac.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Stars, Science, Light

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

  Mark Twain

  Strategy, Ifs

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

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Statistics, Mathematics

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• If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

  Ronald Coase

  Truth, Knowledge, Data

  "A Comment on Daniel Klein's 'A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty'" by Gordon Tullock, Eastern Economic Journal, 2001.

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• 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.

  Ian Brodie

  Dark, Marketing, Shooting

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

  Keith Rabois

  Keys, Everyday, Dashboards

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• Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

  Russel Honore

  Team, Mean, Common

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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

  Frustration, People, Way

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• It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

  Gordon Bethune

  Educational, Successful, Doe

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

  Jennifer Tour Chayes

  Science, Towns, Nonsense

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

  Mitch Harper

  Vision, Stories, Paint

  "What Angel Investors Care About Most When They Make Investment Decisions". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2015.

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• Don’t just climb the ladder of success - a ladder that leads, after all, to higher and higher levels of stress and burnout - but chart a new path to success, remaking it in a way that includes not just the conventional metrics of money and power, but a third metric that includes well-being, wisdom, wonder and giving, so that the goal is not just to succeed but to thrive.

  Arianna Huffington

  Stress, Giving, Goal

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• 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 Christensen

  Thinking, Resolution, Ends

  Harvard Business Review, Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Clayton Christensen, Daniel Goleman (2014). “The HBR’s 10 Must Reads Collection (12 Books) (HBR’s 10 Must Reads)”, p.502, Harvard Business Review Press

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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

  Focus

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• God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

  Salvador Dali

  Men, Metric System, Invention

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

  Sam Altman

  Week, Should, Reviews

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• Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

  Douglas Coupland

  Apology, Long, Car

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

  Catherine O'Hara

  United States, States, United

  Interview with Samantha Bee, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2016.

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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

  Funny, Humor, Science

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.48, Crown Archetype

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• I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Gmos, Musical, Variation

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• 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

  Used, Persons

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

  Capers Jones

  Quality, Use, Lines

  Capers Jones (1994). “Assessment and Control of Software Risks”, Prentice Hall

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• Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

  Capers Jones

  Technology, Use, Lines

  Capers Jones (1997). “Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.

  Charlie Munger

  Writing, Hard Work, Years

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• What's the third metric beyond money and power? I think it's a combination of wellbeing and wisdom. Because the problem also with defining success just in terms of money and power means that people feel that they have to work around the clock, burn out, and the result is people making terrible decisions.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "The Tavis Smiley SHow", www.pbs.org. March 12, 2013.

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