Quotes About Metrics

#1. You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

Keith Rabois

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

Sam Altman

#3. I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there are these messages in society that if you aren't hitting certain metrics, then you're not successful and you're not valid.

Lela Loren

#4. There are over 1.5 billion tweets generated every 2 days and over 30 billion pieces of content shared each month on Facebook (Kiss Metrics).

Bryan Kramer

#5. 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

#6. When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to drive my business. Now, everything comes from the numbers.

Jim McDonough

#7. Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

Sam Altman

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

Nolan Bushnell

#9. 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

#10. Youku Tudou kicked off 2014 in a positive direction. Mobile has become the number one screen for Youku Tudou, and we are the undisputed leader in all of the important mobile video traffic metrics.

Victor Koo

#11. The important point to emphasize is that security metrics are a journey and not a destination.

Lance Hayden

#12. Even with objective metrics in hand, the argument about which is better or which is worse without first establishing a common standard creates nothing more than debate.

Simon Sinek

#13. You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Bill Gates

#14. Google attracts so much talent, it can afford to look beyond traditional metrics, like G.P.A. For most young people, though, going to college and doing well is still the best way to master the tools needed for many careers.

Thomas Friedman

#15. You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.

Robert Pozen

#16. 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

#17. Digg will serve as a means of gathering metrics for third party websites, providing them insights into who's digging their content, who they are spreading it to.

Kevin Rose

#18. We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

Donna Shalala

#19. IT metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience; at the same time that "business sentiment" needs to get put into something more tangible.

Pearl Zhu

#20. 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

#21. The popular contemporary wisdom that a liberal arts education is outmoded is true only to the extent that social equality, liberty, and worldly development of mind and character are outmoded and have been displaced by another set of metrics: income streams, profitability, technological innovation.

Wendy Brown

#22. The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.

Andrew Mason

#23. When a positive exchange between a brand and customers becomes quantifiable metrics, it encourages brand to provide better service, customer service to do a better job, and consumers to actively show their gratitude.

Simon Mainwaring

#24. Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

Eric Ries

#25. 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

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

Russel Honore

#27. 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

#28. It's not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It's already under way.

Steve Denning

#29. 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

#30. As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

Lance Secretan

#31. 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

#32. savvy marketers are moving to an evaluation of the impact that all ad impressions - whether clicked or not - have on consumer behavior, mirroring the manner in which traditional advertising has been measured for decades using reach and frequency metrics.

William Leake

#33. I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

Chelsea Clinton

#34. By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.

Ben Horowitz

#35. Performance metrics are numbers in context, results are related to your strategic goals.

Pearl Zhu

#36. No really. What exactly did you do today, Jenny? Quantify it for me."
"It's not quantifiable. There aren't even metrics for the shit I do.

Jenny Lawson

#37. Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

Christine Pelosi

#38. From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies.

Leah Busque

#39. I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.

Jeff Bezos

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

Capers Jones

#41. Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is read to or hugged.

Nicholas Kristof

#42. When you're the only person who could have created a work of art, the competition and standard metrics by which things are measured become irrelevant because nothing can replace you. The factors that distinguish you are so personal than nobody can replicate them.

Srinivas Rao

#43. All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Mark Twain

#44. 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

#45. Management innovation has both hard elements such as process and metrics; and soft elements such as communication and culture.

Pearl Zhu

#46. 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

#47. Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.

James Fenton

#48. I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees.

Leila Janah

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

Mitch Harper

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

Chris Hughes

#51. It's about who owns the servers. The servers that store your metrics. The servers that shout the ads. The servers that transmit your chat. The servers that geofence your every movement.

Raph Koster

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

Mark Twain

#53. Mentoring is all about people - it's about caring, about relationships and sensitivity. As it becomes increasingly in vogue it is becoming too formulated - concerned with performance metrics, critical success factors, investment and spending. It'll be a disaster.

Rene Carayol

#54. IT metrics have to evolve from being a cost center to becoming a revenue generator.

Pearl Zhu

#55. Short-term metrics can destroy long-term opportunities

Thomas W. Malnight

#56. Keep in mind, measurement is not just numbers, but stories.

Pearl Zhu

#57. God invented man, and man invented the metric system.

Salvador Dali

#58. If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?

Gyles Brandreth

#59. First, measure the right things, and then measure them right.

Pearl Zhu

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

Jesse Helms

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. What's measured improves

Peter F. Drucker

#64. People do what you inspect, not what you expect.

Pearl Zhu

#65. 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

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

Jennifer Tour Chayes

#67. 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.

Dave Barry

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

Lincoln Chafee

#69. Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Eric Hobsbawm

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

Noah Kagan

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. This thrilled Zuckerberg, whose primary measure of the service's success was how often users returned.

David Kirkpatrick