Smart People Quotes

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A lot of people like to fool you and say that you're not smart if you never went to college, but common sense rules over everything. That's what I learned from selling crack.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

When the world is predictable you need smart people. When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.

You can't make people smarter. You can expose them to information, but your responsibility stops there.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so I am very proud in saying that I am a geek.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

The idiot was not a lot of thinking, which is an important move on. Smart people mostly think, consequently never stepped

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

There is a tendency of people to try to make you believe only a few people are smart. As a brain surgeon, I know better than that.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

Don't expect smart people to listen to you without proof.

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they guillotined all the smart people in 1793.

Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it!

Distorting attacks when people already don't trust you is not smart.

Your work gets destroyed by dumb people and it gets enhanced by smart people and it really doesn't have anything to do with marketing.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

You've got a lot of very, very smart people standing by waiting for somebody else to do the work. Not a recipe for long-term solvency in my opinion.

Some [people] are really smart. You know who you are. Some [people] are really thick. Unfortunately, you don't know who you are.

I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

My donkeys are Jack and Don Quixote. They're very smart, very cautious. Much of what people consider stubbornness in donkeys is actually cautiousness.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.

If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.

People don't like when you point out to them and remind them that they're not very smart.

There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.