Top 45 Quotes About Acumen
#1. I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.
Bradley Whitford
#2. But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.
Arthur Levitt Jr
#3. Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.
Sophia Amoruso
#5. Through the Fellows Program, Acumen Fund prepares future global leaders with the tools necessary to drive significant social change.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#6. I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#7. A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.
Angelica Hopes
#8. Intelligence once meant more than what any artificial intelligence does. It used to include sensibility, sensitivity, awareness, discernment, reason, acumen, and wit.
Sherry Turkle
#9. My business acumen is definitely growing.
Kevin Hart
#10. I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.
Deirdre O'Kane
#11. Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#12. Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's a bit like gut instinct, but a little more developed.
Donald Trump
#13. Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer.
"I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb," he told Rob.
Jeff Hobbs
#14. The other guys did not feel the need to understand themselves that in me was so compelling: they could carry out their personality with the greatest naturalness, while I had to play a part, and this required a considerable acumen and study
Yukio Mishima
#15. This is what happens with a breakthrough. The first ones through the door often get bruised if not broken. Eventually, with a little political acumen and racial sensitivity and a lot of hard work, a smooth new place can emerge.
Gwen Ifill
#16. One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.
Jessye Norman
#17. The idiot child they've placed on the throne does not impress with his acumen.
Charles Stross
#18. The idea that IT professionals don't need business acumen is a destructive myth.
Al Kuebler
#19. As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.
Frederick Lenz
#20. First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and greater acumen in analyzing those facts will pay off in better performance somehow measured. (By this logic, cure for cancer must have been found by 1955).
Paul Samuelson
#21. Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.
Robert McKee
#22. She would have asked Noah to confirm this, but he was notoriously disinterested in the details of his afterlife. (Once, Gansey had tersely asked, "Don't you care how it is that you're still here?" and Noah had answered with remarkable acumen, "Do you care how your kidneys work?")
Maggie Stiefvater
#23. Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.
Russell Simmons
#24. IF you torture a single chicken and are caught, you're likely to be arrested. If you scald thousands of chickens alive, you're an industrialist who will be lauded for your acumen.
Bill Vaughan
#25. I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
Vladimir Nabokov
#26. For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#27. My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
Donna Mills
#28. As both developed and developing nations search for alternative sources of energy in response to the growing energy crisis, we at Acumen Fund believe that investing in entrepreneurs who provide innovative energy solutions is an increasingly critical part of the solution.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#29. I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.
Robin S. Sharma
#30. When my eye rested on an arid height, spirit partook of the barrenness. - Heartily wish Niebuhr & Strauss to the dogs. The deuce take their penetration & acumen. They have robbed us of the bloom.
Herman Melville
#31. Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#32. Individuals were dangerously captured by belief in their own financial acumen and intelligence and conveyed this error to others.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#33. He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
Edgar Allan Poe
#34. A leader should be able to see and know what to do! His acumen should give the men a reason to rule their season.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#36. I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.
Trey Gowdy
#37. Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#38. Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#40. Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#42. The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#44. Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#45. Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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