17 Metric Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Arthur Laffer

Three Past Virtually Remarkably Over Major Periods Policy Reagan Been Years Metric Any Tax Tax Cuts Public Cuts Successful Measured Public Policy Each Kennedy Early

It comes up over and over and over again that a ten times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries or the volume metric, the space-oriented density of batteries, would enable so many other moonshots that that's one that just constantly comes up over and over again, and we will start that moonshot if we can find a great idea. Astro Teller

Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing. Dan Phillips

You Own Down Mosaic Glue Metric Up Any Going Just Landfill Then Your Choosing Floor Ton Gather

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

'Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of the music was not easy. 'Kansas City' was maybe eight minutes, if that. Writing the early blues was spontaneous. You can hear the energy in the work. Jerry Leiber

Work Music You Writing Dog Complicated Energy Difficult Took City Easy Minutes Structure Scheme Hound Like Spontaneous Piece Also Hear Metric Maybe Blues Eight Rhyme Kansas Kansas City Twelve Early

The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly. Michael Dickinson

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference. Naveen Jain

Positive Success You Able Make Real Metric Account Bank Bank Account Difference Size Might Your Whom Lives Number

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?' Paul Samuelson

Work You People Money Economics Pay Define Willing Advanced Metric Often Frontier Want Ask Really Utility Actually

If you're looking for a metric that we have to measure, that we have to control, it's government in relation to the size of our economy. Ron Johnson

Government You Looking Control Relation Our Economy Metric Size Measure

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

I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry. Tamsin Greig

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. Tobias Lutke

Business Change Will Leader Important Startup Lifetime Pick Over Most Likely Track Because Metric Referred Tasks Often The Most Important Note Your Compass Growth Right

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