Metrics Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

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

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

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.

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

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

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.

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.

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

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

God invented man, and man invented the metric system.