18 useful data quotes for fundraisers
For many of you a new year marks the start of a new annual planning cycle. Hopefully with a donor-focused and data-driven strategy as the basis of your fundraising program. And based on a firm planning and projection process. You want to know where all those investments are going, right? I have collected 18 great ‘data quotes’ for you. Useful in any discussion about data-driven fundraising.
What gets measured gets managed. - Peter Drucker
Data that sit unused are no different from data that were never collected in the first place. - Doug Fisher
Without data you are just another person with an opinion. - W. Edwards Deming
Data will talk to you if you’re willing to listen. - Jim Bergeson
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. - Albert Einstein.
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight. - Carly Fiorina
We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights. - Jay Baer
Where there is data smoke, there is business fire. - Thomas Redman
Marketing without data is like driving with your eyes closed. - Dan Zarella
At the end of the day, the numbers don't lie. - Marcus Lemonis
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. - Arthur Conan Doyle
In God we trust. All others must bring data. - W. Edwards Deming
You can’t improve what you don’t measure. - Peter Drucker
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data. - Daniel Keys Moran
If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. - Jim Barksdale
It’s easy to lie with statistics. It’s hard to tell the truth without statistics. - Andrejs Dunkels
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. - Clifford Stoll
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Søren Kierkegaard