Quotes About Measuring Success

#1. As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

Mark Dever

#2. Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

Mark Cuban

#3. The measuring stick of success in Hollywood is covered in shit at both ends

Dean Cavanagh

#4. Instead of measuring my success and value by my own standards, I was measuring it by how others perceived me.

Jennifer Lopez

#5. In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

John Caudwell

#6. And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like? I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?

Patti Digh

#7. Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

Washington Irving

#8. The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.

Rod Steiger

#9. When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack.

Takeda Nobushige

#10. As the months went by, Talese began to see the masseuse as a kind of unlicensed therapist. Just as thousands of people each day paid psychiatrists money to be heard, the massage man paid money to be touched.

Gay Talese

#11. In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is by how much joy it brings you, you're measuring inaccurately. Life is also sadness, defeat, striving. It is many things.

Mario Cuomo

#12. I've been writing about measurement a lot this year, because I've found that measuring progress is the only way to drive lasting success.

John Lanchester

#13. Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

Grover Norquist

#14. Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

Denis Waitley

#15. [In my pre-success years] there was a constant hunger, measuring myself against other actors, and there was sometimes fear. But, there was always a need for self-improvement, to help with the struggle to make myself a better actor.

John Goodman

#16. Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

George Jones

#17. When companies start measuring success by clicks that doesn't compute to us, the only thing that computes to us is cash.

Bruce Berkowitz

#18. The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

Fred Ritchin

#19. Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.

Farshad Asl

#20. I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

Idris Elba

#21. I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

Jonathan Coe

#22. What if we all started measuring our success as mothers based on our areas of innate strength instead of weakness and trusted God enough to fill in the gaps?

Stacey Thacker

#23. If at first you don't succeed, then maybe you have the wrong idea of success, or you're using the wrong standard of measuring it.

Tristan Sherwin

#24. Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

Chris Van Allsburg

#25. We can't keep measuring success by how much money are we throw at programs. We have to measure success as, 'Is it working?

Paul Ryan

#26. Love is the higher law.

David Levithan