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Friday, October 28, 2011

Quotes on Market Research

  • Measure with a micrometer, mark with a chalk and cut with an axe.
  • When giving a forecast give them a number or the time but never both
  • Figures don't lie but liars figure
  • It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. 
  • he way to do research is to attach the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
  • Some people use research like a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
  • Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
  • When we cannot express something in numbers, our knowledge is meager.
  • There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics
  • There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up
  • Facts are available to everyone; it is interpretation and implementation that is key

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