Evaluation Metrics Quotes

In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

How does one measure the success of a museum?

I never look at scores or anything.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Everybody that has a measurement, whether it's in teaching or whether it's in your job, you're always worried how you will be measured.

When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

I don't read my reviews, I measure them.

What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.

Benchmarks are targets that have to be fulfilled. They cannot be fulfilled in an indefinite period of time, so there are timetables in benchmarks.