Marc Randolph

I just always believed we would succeed. Even when everyone else said my ideas were ridiculous. Even when we were almost out of money. Even when the metrics were all upside down. I always have confidence that I'll figure something out. I just have that confidence that things are going to work out fine.

American Businessman

Tobias Lutke

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.

Canadian Businessman

Heidi Roizen

I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to the CFO, and then stop worrying about all that 'numbers stuff.' Don't do that. You have to know your numbers inside and out - they are your life blood.

Spencer Paysinger

Professional or amateur, athletes want to see progress. We like to see numbers and metrics improve, and when you have deeper insight into what's going on inside your body, you're empowered to make changes to improve and become stronger.

American Athlete

Steve Blank

Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.

Grover Norquist

Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.

American Politician

Paul Samuelson

Actually, in my advanced, high-falutin' frontier economics, I often work with what I define as 'money metric utility,' and I ask people, 'Do you really want that? What are you willing to pay for that?

American Economist

Jamie S. Miller

The most important metrics are did we execute the way in which we said we would, and did we deliver the value to the business that we had promised?

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

Lebanese Scientist

Chelsea Clinton

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

American Celebrity

Used when quantifying achievements or results in measurable terms.

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'Metric' often implies detailed analysis and tracking over time.

Business Analysis

The metric system is internationally recognized and widely used, except in the US.

Global Standard

Metric units are preferred in scientific contexts for precision and universality.

Scientific Precision

Metrics in business often refer to measurable factors that indicate performance or success.

Performance Indicator

In a business context, 'metric' suggests targeted measurements related to objectives.

Specifically Business

Mathematically, 'metric' can describe complex systems for accurate measurements.

Math Precision

A 'metric' can provide a framework for analyzing mathematical structures.

Math Framework

In poetry, 'metric' deals with the rhythm and measured beats of verses.

Poetic Structure

'Metric' helps to create a musical quality in poetry that can evoke emotions.

Literary Device

 many, many studies looking at the frequency of giving behavior that exists in a team or an organization -- and the more often people are helping and sharing their knowledge and providing mentoring, the better organizations do on every metric we can higher profits, customer satisfaction, employee retention --

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 On the horizontal axis is income inequality. The further to the right you go, the greater the income inequality. On the vertical axis are nine social and health metrics. The more you go up that, the worse the problems are, and those metrics include life expectancy, teenage pregnancy, literacy,

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 track your time boy tracked my money I had my bills on a huge color-coded wall chart but when it came to time specifically I wasn't tracking the right metrics imagine that X is your number of hours and Y is your number of years over the course of a lifetime we think our x and y are

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 and the Enneagram, actually reveal truths about personality. In fact, it’s up for debate whether personality is a stable, measurable feature of an individual at all. Part of the problem is the way the tests are constructed. Each is based on a different set of metrics to define

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 Consistent measurements are such an integral part of our daily lives that it's hard to appreciate what a major accomplishment for humanity they've been. And just as it arose from a political revolution, the metric system remains crucial for the scientific revolutions to come.

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 the horn truck may be on the smaller end of the sharky side spectrum but we're about to jump straight to the largest the whale shark is not only the largest shark but the largest fish on the entire planet they can grow to be 12 meters long and weigh up to 20 metric tons

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 They asked half of these participants to report their current personality traits, values, and preferences, along with what each of those metrics had been ten years before. The other half described those features in their present selves,

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 that's why you see the plus there. I was told to say that. So it has to be the big three at GRC. That's another metric. Ninety-seven percent of the world's water is saltwater. How about we use that? Combine that with number three.

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 but when those fundamentals are in place, they can take you to the mountaintop. I want you to think about your life for a moment. Do you have the right metrics? Take time to write down your values,

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 8 million metric tons of plastic trash enters the sea from land every year the equivalent of five plastic bags filled with trash for every foot of coastline in the world across our ocean plastic

Metric

A standard of measurement.

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Related to the metric system which uses meters, kilograms, etc.

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A method of measuring something, or the results obtained from this.

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A system or standard of measurement.

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A measurement in poetry.

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