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• My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

  Steve Blank

  Business, What Matters, Data

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• Investors should always keep in mind that the most important metric is not the returns achieved but the returns weighed against the risks incurred. Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.

  Seth Klarman

  Sleep, Night, Risk

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• 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.

  Clayton Christensen

  People, Dollars, Moral

  Clayton Christensen (2016). “The Clayton M. Christensen Reader”, p.203, Harvard Business Review Press

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• 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.'

  Simon Sinek

  Machines, Fishy, Humans

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• I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mother, Daughter, Believe

  "Chelsea Clinton Says She Doesn't 'Care About' Money" by Hunter Walker, www.businessinsider.com. June 23, 2014.

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• All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

  Mark Twain

  Vanity, Drunkards

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• Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identify and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views.

  Robert Graves

  Strong, Philosophy, Party

  Robert Graves, Patrick J. Quinn (2000). “Some speculations on literature, history, and religion”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• 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

  Education, Caring, People

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• Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Drug, Generations

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• The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism are properties that theories have in virtue of their relation to the whole structure of scientific beliefs taken collectively. A measure of conservatism or simplicity would be a metric over global properties of belief systems.

  Jerry Fodor

  Taken, Simplicity, Degrees

  "The Modularity of Mind". Book by Jerry Fodor, plato.stanford.edu. 1983.

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• There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure," Bob said, "because it refuses to learn the metric system. Otherwise it'd be up to a meter by now.

  Jim Butcher

  Skulls, Evil, Boss

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.117, Penguin

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

  Nolan Bushnell

  School, Games, Ends

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

  Gyles Brandreth

  Giving, Twelve, Christ

  Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (1982). “More joy of lex: an amazing and amusing Z to A and A to Z of words”, William Morrow & Co

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• 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

  War, Metric System, Reason Why

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

  Keith Rabois

  Needs, Simplify, Company

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate". Keith Rabois' "How To Start a Startup" lecture to the class at Stanford University in Stanford, California, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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

  Judith Stone

  Use, Toes, Metric System

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Baseball, Character, Maturity

  "Play Ball: 7 Lessons From Baseball for Politics" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

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• 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.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Meaningful, Thinking, Might

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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

  Successful, Artist, Thinking

  "Actor Lela Loren: Getting grounded, sweating it out, and loving yourself". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 21, 2015.

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• Success for me is going beyond money and power, and measuring success based on a third metric - one founded on well-being, wisdom, our ability to wonder and to give back. Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over. Basically, success the way we've defined it is no longer sustainable.

  Arianna Huffington

  Two, Giving, Balance

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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

  Michael Brenner

  Keys, Marketing, Three

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• I'm not familiar with the metric system.

  Patton Oswalt

  Metric System, Familiar

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• In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value of the introduction of a new product and pay its innovator accordingly, say on the basis of the product's measured health impact during its first ten years on the market. In exchange, innovators must of course renounce the usual rewards they are otherwise entitled to, namely the patent-protected markup on the price of their product.

  Thomas Pogge

  Years, Impact, Usual

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Europeans hate the way Americans talk. They think we're loud and uncouth and they don't like our jokes, except for Michael Moore. Plus, they resent the fact that they've had to learn our language because if they didn't we wouldn't buy their stupid metric widgets or visit their overpriced ruins.

  Denis Boyles

  Stupid, Hate, Thinking

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• 1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Mother, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.glamour.com

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