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

  Mark Twain

  Vanity, Drunkards

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Drug, Generations

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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