Bill Gates Quotes

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.

In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

We don’t have any metrics on that.

Data not only measures progress—it inspires it. Once you start measuring problems, people are more inclined to take action to fix them, because nobody wants to end up at the bottom of a list of rankings.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

There's no comparison to competition. You can't tell yourself truly where you're at unless you compete in competition.

You can't control what you can't measure

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.

What gets measured, gets done.

We only value something when we measure it.

When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

I believe you accomplish what you measure.

Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly.

There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.

We treasure what we can measure.

Progress is made where progress is measured.

Honestly, at the end of every season, we sit down and review where we're at.

We need to learn what's working and what's not working.

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

Benchmarking is an ongoing exercise in any company that aspires for leadership.

Stats aren't everything.

It is better to be compared with a very good coach than the other way.