“What gets measured gets improved.”
Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer
Source: The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class
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Daniel J. Fairbanks (1956) American artist
Source: Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race (2015), p. 18.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
As quoted in I. Milletlerarası Gençlik Kongresi [First International Youth Congress] (1988) by Selçuk University, p. 19
Context: Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.
“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
The quote is widely misattributed to Galilei, but is actually from two French scholars, Antoine-Augustin Cournot and Thomas-Henri Martin. See "Der messende Luchs: Zwei verbreitete Fehler in der Galilei-Literatur" by Andreas Kleinert in "NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin" May 2009, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp 199–206.
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Michael Hammer (1948–2008) American academic
Source: Reengineering the Corporation, 1993, p. 32
“Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.”
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
For example, those who want a high quality of work life but don't know how to measure it, often settle for wanting a high standard of living because they can measure it.
Source: 2000s, A little book of f-laws: 13 common sins of management, 2006, p. 4, bold text cited in: Colin J. Neill, Phillip A. Laplante, Joanna F. DeFranco (2011) Antipatterns: Managing Software Organizations and People.
“What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.”
Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist
Source: The Blood of the Lamb
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
"Matteo" in Concerning the New Star (1606)
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