Measuring and sharing the numbers creates transparency and visibility, and makes us all feel like we’re contributing to the big picture.

Accountable people appreciate numbers. Wrong people in the wrong seats usually resist measurables. Right people in the right seats love clarity. Knowing the numbers they need to hit, they enjoy being part of a culture where all are held accountable

Numbers aren’t just for the person. They become a communication tool between manager and direct report,

at some point numbers do count.

Numbers give you strength. Numbers give you power. Numbers contribute financially to the growth of the party. The more the numbers, the more seats in the National Assembly, and the more money you get from the treasury

A damned big clue, but pointing at what? When in doubt, get some numbers.

MANAGING STRICTLY BY NUMBERS IS LIKE PAINTING BY NUMBERS

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still more useful in deluding the minds of others. Numbers are the masters of the weak, but the slaves of the strong.

Remember, clarity is power. When your brain knows a real number, your conscious mind will figure out a way to get there.

Complete accountability is established and enforced throughout; and if there there is any error committed, it will be discovered on a comparison with the books and can be traced to its source.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

MANAGING STRICTLY BY NUMBERS IS LIKE PAINTING BY NUMBERS Some things that you want to encourage will be quantifiable, and some will not. If you report on the quantitative goals and ignore the qualitative ones, you won’t get the qualitative goals, which may be the most important ones. Management purely by numbers is sort of like painting by numbers — it’s strictly for amateurs. At HP, the company wanted high earnings now and in the future. By focusing entirely on the numbers, HP got them now by sacrificing the future.

It is number which regulates everything and it is measure which establishes universal order.... A quiet peace, an inviolable order, an inflexible security amidst all change and turmoil characterize the world which mathematics discloses and whose depths it unlocks.

those numbers have more meaning because they are real numbers that relate to your life.