Metrics Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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

God invented man,
and man invented the metric system.

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

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

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

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

By any rational metric, I am boring.

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

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.

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

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.

Of course if you are launching a new business you can thinking about revenues, profits, and so on, but metrics such as customer satisfaction or employee retention might be meaningful if you are focusing more internally.

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

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

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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