Measure What Is Important Quotes

#1. Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

Robert McNamara

#2. It is of the greatest important in this world that a man should know himself, and the measure of his own strength and means; and he who knows that he has not a genius for fighting must learn how to govern by the arts of peace.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#3. It's not so much what you accomplish. But what's more important is how far you've come to accomplish what you have.
Success is the measure of not mere achievement, but also how hard one had to work.

Therone Shellman

#4. It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

Elias Canetti

#5. Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

Seth Godin

#6. Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#7. I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

Viswanathan Anand

#8. What is objectively true about your situation is not as important as how you come to see the situation, how you choose to measure it and value it.

Mark Manson

#9. Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.

Clayton Christensen

#10. Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

Andrew Card

#11. What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

Bob Parsons

#12. We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.

Alfie Kohn

#13. Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals.

Michael Bennet

#14. I read somewhere ... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong ... to measure yourself at least once.

Jon Krakauer

#15. Some important factor doesn't lose its "share of force" just because some "expert" can better measure other types of force.

Charlie Munger

#16. How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

Muriel Barbery

#17. It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.

Petter Stordalen

#18. In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think.

Sugata Mitra

#19. How important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once ...

Primo Levi

#20. The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play.

Bill Russell