G. D. P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G. D. P. is not a welfare metric.
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system
It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.
A startup can focus on only one metric. So you have to decide what that is and ignore everything else.
By any rational metric, I am boring.
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.
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.
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.
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.
I think the metric by which television is considered liberal is literally based on the metric of liberalism in each person's soul. Peoples' senses of humor tend to go about as far as their ideology.
I'm not familiar with the metric system.
If god had meant us to use the metric system he would have given us ten finger and ten toes.
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material. '
Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold War was so we wouldn't have to learn the metric system.
I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars, but the individual people whose lives I've touched. I think that's the way it will work for us all. Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
