Metrics Quotes - Page 4

• Insulate yourself...
  from anonymous angry people
  Expose yourself to art you don't yet understand
  Precisely measure the results that are important to you
  Stay blind to the metrics that don't matter
  Fail often
  Ship
  Lead, don't manage so much
  Seek out uncomfortable situations
  Make an impact on the people who matter to you
  Be better at your baseline skills than anyone else
  Copyedit less, invent more
  Give more speeches
  Ignore unsolicited advice

  Seth Godin

  Art, Impact, Skills

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• The weightlifting competition I saw was the women's 63 kg class. I'm not sure whether this means the actual women weighed 63 kg or the weights they lifted weighed 63 kg. Or possibly the temperature in the weightlifting hall was 63 kg. There's no way to know for sure without finding out what a "kg" is, and my belief, as an American, is that if I have to start understanding the metric system, then the terrorists have won.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Mean, Class

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• I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it brings. Just learning how to read music requires metrics, and I think that helps you with mathematics. A lot of scientists and doctors have a musical background - it's very interesting.

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Doctors, Interesting

  "Interview with Dr. Ben Carson on Education". TheBestSchools.org Interview, thebestschools.org.

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• 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

  Fall, Government, People

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

  Jim Butcher

  Evil, Metric System, Meter

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• Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.

  Ben Parr

  Real, Space, Talking

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• 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.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Welfare, Should, Consumers

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• 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

  Careers, Two, Giving

  Arianna Huffington's Commencement Address at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, www.smith.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax rates in the nation. If you look at the economic metrics over the last decade for both groups, the zero-income-tax-rate states outperform the highest-income-tax-rate states by a fairly sizable amount.

  Arthur Laffer

  Zero, Groups, Income

  "How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. August 1, 2013.

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• There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at each of those 11 states over the last 50 years, and I took their current economic metrics and their metrics for the five years before they put in the progressive income tax... Every single state that introduced a progressive income tax has declined as an overall share of the U.S. economy.

  Arthur Laffer

  Years, United States, Income

  "How Low Can They Go? Arthur Laffer Defends Slashing State Income Taxes". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. August 1, 2013.

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• 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

  Practice, Goal, Transition

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• Sales managers should track the number of first meetings with "right fit" prospects a sales person is engaged in on a monthly basis...This metric alone will serve as a powerful, early-warning system to sales performance.

  Adrian Davis

  Powerful, Sales Person, Numbers

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• 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

  Track, Important, Portfolios

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• Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.

  Violeta Parra

  Hate, Writing, Blow

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• 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

  Media, Engagement, Return

  "How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business And What You Can Do About It" by Simon Mainwaring, www.fastcompany.com. June 6, 2011.

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• One of the problems with the kill-or-capture metric is that it has often been to the exclusion of having a deeper, richer understanding of the movement, its origins, and our adversaries' mindset. The nuances are absolutely critical. Our adversaries are wedded to the ideology that informs and fuels their struggle, and, by not paying attention, we risk not knowing our enemy.

  Bruce Hoffman

  Struggle, Knowing, Understanding

  "The Master Plan" by Lawrence Wright, www.newyorker.com. September 11, 2006.

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• The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

  Naveen Jain

  Real, Differences, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 24, 2016

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• 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

  Innovation, Different, Culture

  "Why Continuous Improvement May Need To Be Discontinued" by Ron Ashkenas, www.forbes.com. July 24, 2013.

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• 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

  Gratitude, Jobs, Educational

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

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Feelings, Shame, Absence

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• 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

  Teacher, School, Differences

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• We've come to a basic agreement, which is that first, people will be legalized. In other words, not citizens, but they’ll be allowed to work, come out of the shadows, travel. Then, we will make sure the border is secure. And we have specific metrics that are in the bill. I’m not going to get into what they are...

  Charles Schumer

  Agreement, People, Shadow

  "TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2013.

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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. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

  Clayton Christensen

  Thinking, People, Worry

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

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Revolution, Metric System, Lasting

  Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

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

  Jesse Helms

  Jesus, Use, Metric System

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