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Measurement Quotes

“If you cant measure it, it doesn’t exist” Anonymous

“Every organization has only a handful of measures that are truly critical to the successful implementation of its strategy” - Robert Simons

“ 50% of organizations who claim to be using the Balance Scorecard are doing it wrong e. g. no executive ownership, scorecard not linked to strategy or management process. ” - Kaplan and Norton

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life. ” ― Sigmund Freud

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it. ” ― H. James Harrington

“If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value” ― Douglas W. Hubbard

“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway. ” — Geoffrey Moore

“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ” —  Marshall Mc. Luhan

“In God we trust, all others bring data. ” ― W. Edward Deming

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. ” —  Ronald Coase, Economist

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. ” —  Albert Einstein

“Data are just summaries of thousands of stories – tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful. ” —  Chip & Dan Heath

“Action is the real measure of intelligence. ” —  Napoleon Hill

“I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. - Bill Gates

“I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success. ” - Christie Hefner

"The way you measure is more important than what you measure. “ - Art Gust