Quotes About Measurement

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

Austin believes that winning or losing in binary is meaningless when there's a high score to beat.

Eratosthenes was the first to use a scientific method to calculate the circumference of the earth

The only real way to measure progress, the only real way to see if activity has any real teeth is how that activity ties to the Key Results the company is after. Activity doesn't matter, it's all about results.

Where performance is measured, performance improves. Where performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates." What you pay attention to grows.

A leading indicator is an early-warning signal that tells you, before it's too late, that the process is at risk for not producing the desired output. A lagging indicator tells you the outcome and that something might have gone wrong after the fact. Let's

Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Merton ... humbly warned, however, "It's a wrong perception to believe that you can eliminate risk just because you can measure it.

No doubt about it: numbers are the future. The world's been learning to count since the days of chivalry ended and it's only going to get worse. We're about to witness the end of everything that isn't quantifiable—honor, for example.

How big are you, really? I always say that I'm two inches... from the floor.

The Myth of Measurement For some people, stepping out on the line is worth the risk only if success can be seen, touched, felt, and, most of all, counted. But trying to take satisfaction in life from the numbers you ring up is ultimately no more successful than making survival your goal. Meaning cannot be measured. Yet we live immersed in a world of measurement so pervasive that even many of our religious institutions measure success, significantly, by market share.

It is not in the context of measuring people's performance against standards that we propose giving the A, despite the reference to measurement the A implies. We give the A to finesse the stranglehold of judgment that grades have over our consciousness from our earliest days.

Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images

In the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.

High-tech companies like Google or Microsoft carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees out of the same belief: they are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential.

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the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

The success of a man should be measured not by his income but by his tax returns.

Each daily improvement should have a means by which it can be measured so you can see and feel yourself growing

And by knowing what we fear, don't we know what we care about, how we are measuring our worth, what success looks like?" I asked. So isn't fear helpful, then?

In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didn't have yards or even feet of success to show off.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.