Metric Quotes - page 2

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system. View quote
Eric Hobsbawm
I just think it's the world we live in and there is no real metric to measure us by because CNN is the only one that is still doing journalism. View quote
Campbell Brown
I'm not familiar with the metric system. View quote
Patton Oswalt
Market share was the grand old metric, the guiding light, the compass of the product-centric age. Companies focused on improving their product and building economies of scale. This product-centric thinking led to the battle cry: "Get more market share and the profit will follow." View quote
Adrian Slywotzky
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. View quote
Randy Pausch
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. View quote
Bill Gates
Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Harding-Coolidge cuts of the mid-1920s; the Kennedy cuts of the mid-1960s; and the Reagan cuts of the early 1980s. Each of these periods of tax cuts was remarkably successful as measured by virtually any public policy metric. View quote
Arthur Laffer