Top 100 Quotes About Smart People
#2. Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.
Bing Gordon
#3. Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing comics reminds me of my days as a journalist, working on a staff of fun, smart people.
Duane Swierczynski
#4. When the world is predictable you need smart people.
When the world is unpredictable you need adaptable people.
Henry Mintzberg
#5. Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it.
Steven Magee
#6. Stupid people go to college but"smart people own them" ...
Chetan Bhagat
#7. I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
Ice Cube
#8. Resting my head on his shoulder, my gaze turns back to the horizon. "How did you get so smart? Did you, like, eat smart people's brains?"
"Well, if I did, you'd certainly be safe from me.
L.A. Fiore
#9. Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)
Stephen B. Pearl
#10. (It's easy to look smart when you're parroting smart people.)
Randy Pausch
#11. I'm dealing with very, very talented people, smart people, good people. And I think they will be competing. We still have a competition. I had great victory yesterday. South Carolina was amazing. New Hampshire was amazing. The size of the victories, I think, were incredible.
Donald Trump
#12. It's extremely difficult to find smart people willing to start useful projects. Because sometimes what you start doesn't work. The fact that it doesn't work every time should give you confidence, because it means you're doing something that frightens others.
Seth Godin
#13. Hell if I know. That's for smart people like you to figure out. I'm just trying to get college guys to speed up their blow jobs.
Richelle Mead
#14. I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?
Philip G. Zimbardo
#15. Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#16. Here are two chairs; let us sit down and see the smart people go by.
Oscar Wilde
#17. All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I wouldn't pretend for a moment that I hadn't made lots of mistakes and there are companies, perhaps, that we had been investors in.
Michael Moritz
#18. Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.
Bill Joy
#19. We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through.
Cristian Machado
#20. The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent - but a president should have it.
Anonymous
#21. Everybody thought Barack Obama was going to [inspire people] when he came to Washington, but, you know, the Senate seems like the place where smart people go to die.
Jon Stewart
#22. Being drunk leads smart people to do stupid things, which is what is so interesting.
Kit Williamson
#23. I told my daughter that terrorists would love to attack Washington, but we, unlike the French, are an ocean away from Syria, that lots of smart people are working very hard to stop the terrorists, and that the terrorists are not very sophisticated.
Dana Milbank
#24. Not all smart people are funny, but all funny people are smart.
I. Leigh Private
#25. In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!
Ken Kesey
#26. A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.
Stephen King
#27. If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.
David Levithan
#28. I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.
Lil B
#29. Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
Scott Westerfeld
#30. I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.
Douglas Carter Beane
#31. I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
Roger Ebert
#32. The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
Artie Lange
#33. Smart people only mated with smart people, class structures would ossify. There'd be a permanent underclass of stupid people.
Adelle Waldman
#34. I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.
Heidi Julavits
#35. The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
Ben Casnocha
#36. The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
Stephen Hawking
#37. Smart people in rural areas, the handicapped, people looking for companionship, they love it. But you have to be highly motivated to get on and learn to use it.
Philip Rosedale
#38. He (God) is not looking for smart people, because He is the smart one. All he wants are people simple enough to trust him.
Jim Cymbala
#39. What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don't empower them to fix what's broken?
Ed Catmull
#40. nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom.
Yasmine Galenorn
#41. The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.
Malcolm Gladwell
#42. Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.
Aaron Sorkin
#43. He felt blind and deaf, the way he did when he was close to a good idea but couldn't tap into it. He'd told Lizzie about that feeling once, and Lizzie had said, That just means you aren't very smart, Reeve. Smart people have good ideas without having to be blind and deaf first.
Caroline B. Cooney
#44. 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.
Elon Musk
#45. ARPA's mandate - to support smart people in a variety of areas - was carried out based on the unwavering presumption that researchers would try to do the right thing and, in ARPA's view, overmanaging them was counterproductive.
Ed Catmull
#46. Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done.
Joel Spolsky
#47. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.
Douglas Hofstadter
#48. Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them,
Chetan Bhagat
#49. I've met some smart people doing security work in the government, and they're starting to reach out to a broader audience, which I think is a good thing.
Jeff Moss
#50. It's called publishing. It's how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains.
Steven Magee
#51. Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.
Goldie Hawn
#52. I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
Keanu Reeves
#54. Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.
Kim Harrison
#55. Sometimes smart people can be a special kind of stupid. The kind where they know so many facts and are so good at saying "no one would ever do that" that they somehow manage to convince themselves the world is going to care about what they think.
Mira Grant
#56. Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero.
Warren Buffett
#57. I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they're energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people. They're nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation.
Robert De Niro
#58. He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia
Mikhail Bulgakov
#59. No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
Sam Altman
#60. I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.
Bill Gates
#61. I love working with smart people and being challenged. I also like working on stuff that's relevant. That's my adrenaline shot.
Anders Hejlsberg
#62. Know how to use evasion. That is how smart people get out of difficulties.
Baltasar Gracian
#63. Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.
Steven Magee
#64. Of course smart people know a lot and can therefore accomplish more than others less gifted. But hire them not for the knowledge they possess, but for the things they don't yet know.
Eric Schmidt
#65. Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.
Michael Shermer
#66. Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.
Peter Cundill
#67. I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
Keanu Reeves
#69. Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.
Hannah Moskowitz
#70. It's easy to be smart when you are parodying smart people.
Randy Pausch
#71. If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!
Garrison Wynn
#72. It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.
Marissa Mayer
#73. It's in Latin."
"So? What does it say?"
"I don't read Latin!"
"You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?
Rachel Caine
#74. Smart people don't learn ... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
Chris Argyris
#75. A lot of smart people are prone to over-analysis and tend to become paralyzed by indecision
Reid Hoffman
#76. I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Paul Bloom
#77. I'm the CEO. My job is to get out of the way. I work with smart people and trust they can accomplish their goals. So I make sure to focus on removing roadblocks for them and then resume getting out of their way.
John Fairclough
#78. Smart People no think about a bad past or what can happen, but look for a good future to reprobate the happen things and clear it with a smile.
Jan Jansen
#79. I have surrounded myself with very smart people.
Dolly Parton
#80. Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.
P.Z. Myers
#81. Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.
Alex Pareene
#83. There are always more smart people outside your company than within it.
Bill Joy
#84. I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.
Elon Musk
#85. Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'
Douglas Coupland
#86. I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.
John Hickenlooper
#87. I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
Barbara Mandrell
#89. You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?-Shane (Glass Houses)
Rachel Caine
#90. New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
Robert Kahn
#91. Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.
James Richardson
#92. I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.
Idina Menzel
#93. I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub off.
Victor J. Banis
#94. Only a fool trys to outsmart smart people, and anyone that trys to fool fools is himself already one.
~William Faulkner~
William Faulkner
#95. My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to work for other people, there wasn't any reason why I had to. He conveyed that very strongly to my sister and I - that smart people can make their own livings.
Amy Bloom
#96. If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.
Chris Rock
#97. Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.
Robert Redford
#98. I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
Stephen King
#99. There's a difference between a clever person and a smart one. Smart people make their own ways, and clever people use their minds to usurp opportunities to walk on the paths made by others.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#100. 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.
Donald Trump
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