Standard Chartered Bank Quotes

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Whenever you can, count.

We only value something when we measure it.

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

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

What gets measured, gets done.

Good data is hard to find. Hard data is good to find.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics; they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

Spending a few hundred million dollars more a year on evaluations could save tens of billions of dollars by teaching us which programs work and generating lessons to improve programs that don’t

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.

There is a cost to every decision, and whether or not you impose a public health order has costs to industry and the public.

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

If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

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.

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is the best at some component of that endeavor. It's part human nature and part technology, since we have been conditioned to have access to answers and trivial problems at our fingertips.

When things cost so much, you appreciate it much more.

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

The numbers are hard to control.

Price is what you pay, but value, as Warren Buffett has observed, is what you get.