Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
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Metrics
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Russel Honore
General
"Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources."
Simon Sinek
Author, Motivational Speaker
"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.'"
Salvador Dali
Artist, Surrealist
"God invented man, and man invented the metric system."
Chris Hughes
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist
"People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics."
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"Here is a bold embrace of internationalism. Let's join the rest of the world and go metric."
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"Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric."
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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."
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"If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them."
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"If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes."
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"All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics."
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"By any rational metric, I am boring."
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"You've got to tell a story, paint a vision, know your metrics and sell, sell, sell."
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