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• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Magic, Hours, Deals

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• 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, Looks, Use

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• 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

  Thinking, Technology, Years

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

  Eric Ries

  Vanity, Numbers, Want

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

  Sam Altman

  Keys, Months, Financial

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• I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.

  Indra Nooyi

  Thinking, Discipline, Innovation

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• 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

  Numbers, People, Use

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

  Billy Eichner

  People, Difficult, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

  Adam Savage

  Order, Names, Tools

  "Inside Adam Savage's Toolbox". www.wired.com. August 22, 2012.

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

  Chelsea Clinton

  Thinking, Needs, Care

  "Think You Know Chelsea Clinton? Think Again" by Genevieve Roth, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2013.

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• 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, Weapons

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• 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

  Boss, Needs, Done

  "Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours". Book by Robert Pozen, www.businessinsider.com. 2012.

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• I think that today, more so than ever, corporate responsibility is the best strategic as well as financial path that most businesses can follow. For most businesses there are both compelling reasons to be responsible and compelling statistics that validate that responsible businesses do better according to traditional financial metrics. Of course, how you define "responsible" is somewhat of a conundrum.

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Business, Responsibility, Thinking

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• If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

  John Perry Barlow

  Art, Intelligent, Men

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• I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, Soul, Television

  "No News is Good News". Interview with Adam Bulger, The Hartford Advocate, June 12, 2008.

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• When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

  Clayton Christensen

  Self Esteem, Opportunity, Years

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• The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Running, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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

  Lincoln Chafee

  World, Embrace, Internationalism

  "Does Rick Perry deserve a second look from voters?". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2015.

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• 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, Metric System, Embrace

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• 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

  Caring, Accomplishment, Doe

  "Grover Norquist vs. the Pentagon". Interview with Michael D. Ostrolenk, www.theamericanconservative.com. October 24, 2012.

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• 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

  Income, World, Assets

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• The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Kyoto, Years, Effort

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• 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, Looks, Tvs

  "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.

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• Money is a tool – it’s the means, not the end. Inspiration is the metric that dictates whether or not a project is a success. It’s more realistic than trying to aim for radio play, or trying to satisfy an AR, or the other gatekeepers on these platforms. I don’t even know how to create with those things in mind. But if you tell me the goal is to inspire? That makes my job a lot easier.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Jobs, Inspiration, Mean

  "Meet Nipsey Hussle, the rapper who wants you to pay $1,000 for his album" by Rob Boffard, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2015.

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• Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.

  Simon Sinek

  Real, Breathing, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Feb 11, 2015

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