Metrics famous quotes

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.
-- Arianna Huffington

#Two #Giving #Metrics

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

#Frustration #People #Metrics

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 #Metrics #Resolution

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

#People #Dollars #Metrics

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

#Science #Metrics #Bullets

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

#Track #Important #Metrics

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

#Metrics #Revolution #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.
-- Greg Gutfeld

#Beer #Metrics #Metric System

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

#Jesus #Use #Metrics

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

#World #Metrics #Embrace

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

#Focus #Metrics

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

#School #Games #Metrics

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

#Passion #Use #Metrics

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

#Iraq #Agents #Metrics

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

#Team #Mean #Metrics

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

#Keys #Metrics #Months

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

#Media #Engagement #Metrics

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 Freston

#Thinking #Metrics #Tvs

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 Govindarajan

#Innovation #Metrics #Different

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

#World #Metrics #Income

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.
-- Catherine O'Hara

#United States #Metrics #States

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

#Science #Metrics #Towns

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

#Needs #Metrics #Simplify

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

#Metrics #Used #Persons

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

#Keys #Marketing #Metrics

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

#Vision #Stories #Metrics

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

#Giving #Twelve #Metrics

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

#Use #Metrics #Toes