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Measurement Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That’s the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.”

Mark Cuban

Effort, Measurement, Productivity, Goals, Results

2. “Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering—from positive evil.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Suffering, Life Quality, Measurement, Personal Freedom

3. “To measure a man’s happiness only by what he gets, and not also by what he expects to get, is as futile as to try and express a fraction which shall have a numerator but no denominator.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness, Expectations, Fulfillment, Measurement, Perspective

4. “Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.”

John Milton

Time, Eternity, Measurement, Existence, Cosmic Order

5. “One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments.”

Aldous Huxley

Medicine, Emotion, Measurement, Humor, Societal Critique, Dystopian Concept

6. “Love is space and time measured by the heart.”

Marcel Proust

Love, Heart, Space-Time, Emotional Depth, Measurement, Affection

7. “Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.”

Michael Gerber

Personal Success, Self Comparison, Growth Measurement, Success, Comparison, Measurement

8. “What is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?”

Michael Gerber

Goal Setting, Progress Measurement, Life Strategy, Setting, Measurement, Strategy

9. “Begin by quantifying everything related to how you do business. I mean everything.”

Michael Gerber

Business Metrics, Quantification, Data-driven Decisions, Process Improvement, Productivity, Measurement

10. “The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.”

George Bernard Shaw

Tailoring Humor, Personal Reflection, Social Commentary, Tailor, Humor, Measurement

11. “You cannot manage or improve something unless you measure it.”

Darren Hardy

Measurement, Improvement, Growth, Success, Discipline, Tracking

12. “Measuring requires, first and foremost, analytical ability. But it also demands that measurement be used to make self-control possible, rather than abused to control people from the outside and above – that is, to dominate them.”

Peter Drucker

Measurement, Self-Control, Leadership, Analysis, Power

13. “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”

Peter Drucker

Management, Measurement, Business, Strategy, Success, Improvement

14. “If you can’t measure it, you can’t change it.”

Peter Drucker

Measurement, Change, Business, Strategy, Improvement, Success

15. “What’s measured improves.”

Peter Drucker

Measurement, Improvement, Performance, Success, Growth, Metrics

16. “Measurement is fabulous. Unless you’re busy measuring what’s easy to measure as opposed to what’s important.”

Seth Godin

Measurement, Success, Focus, Effectiveness, Prioritization

17. “If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it fails, how often it is putting things in front of people that don't work.”

Seth Godin

Lean, Innovation, Business, Testing, Measurement