William Bruce Cameron Quotes

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

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.

We treasure what we can measure.

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.

We're all fascinated by the numbers, as we were about the 100 points.

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

What gets measured, gets done.

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.

Never compare one person with another.

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.

The numbers are hard to control.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.

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

You can't control what you can't measure

I always liked numbers.

Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

When we don't win, we have to draw conclusions and assess our mistakes. Things can always be improved.

Early on I realized that I had to hire people smarter and more qualified than I was in a number of different fields, and I had to let go of a lot of decision-making. I can't tell you how hard that is. But if you've imprinted your values on the people around you, you can dare to trust them to make the right moves.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

Every decision you make is an important one, whether there are twenty thousand people working for you or just one.

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count