Quotes About The Smartest

#1. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."

Madonna Ciccone

#2. What happened was, my parents after 'Circus Boy' decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.

Micky Dolenz

#3. You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#4. The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Bill Richardson

#5. My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

Donald Trump

#6. I can't get excited about a man until he's forty-two. I know this idiot girl who keeps telling me I ought to go to a head-shrinker; she says I have a father complex. Which is so merde. I simply trained myself to like older men, and it was the smartest thing I ever did.

Truman Capote

#7. I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the UN when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said 'What do you do?' I said 'I'm an actor.' He replied 'I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.' It was lovely.

Angelina Jolie

#8. I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

Paul McCartney

#9. The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

Ben Fountain

#10. Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

Gregory Maguire

#11. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

Stephen King

#12. I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class. From really knowing you're more awesomely intelligent than anybody else, but also being the guy who got beaten up for being Jewish.

Walter Isaacson

#13. I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Dave Goldberg

#15. Hart Hanson is one of the coolest, smartest producers I've ever worked for. He's very open to ideas, he says no when he should, he says yes when it would work for the show.

Michaela Conlin

#16. I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

Erin McCarthy

#17. It's so fun because Jason [Mantzoukas]'s one of the smartest people I've met in comedy. So unbelievably fast comedically - so he's quick with whatever, but it's fun to watch someone be so quick and so stupid simultaneously.

Jackie Schaffer

#18. Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

Taylor Mali

#19. She may not be the prettiest, or the smartest, or the wealthiest at the Academy, but she could be kind. Anyone could be kind.

Alleece Balts

#20. I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived ... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.

Chuck Palahniuk

#21. He's the sexiest, dirtiest, smartest, and kindest man I have ever met.

Lauren Blakely

#22. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

Jake M. Johnson

#23. One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely

Charlie Munger

#24. Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Socrates

#25. The smartest people can write the worst emails and those of less intellect can write the best.

Paul Babicki

#26. Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That's why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. Greg Gutfeld is funnier than all the smart people I know, and smarter than all the funny people I know. I don't know what that makes him. But one of the smartest, funniest people I know, is fair to say.

Matt Labash

#28. Why not just recreate Einstein - one of the smartest humans of all-time, she thought. His advice will be priceless!

Brad McKinniss

#29. I refuse to do anything easy. I'm writing for the smartest person out there. I'm not equating myself with the smartest person out there, but hopefully I'm writing to say you're not alone. I'm not alone. We're not alone.

Larry Gelbart

#30. (The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.

Jay Leno

#31. I feel that 'Person of Interest' is the same quality as 'Brotherhood.' I think it's one of the smartest network television shows on the air today. The audience is a wide range of individuals.

Kevin Chapman

#32. Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.

Johnny Depp

#33. The smartest advertising is the advertising that communicates the best and respects the consumer's intelligence.

Lee Clow

#34. What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.
Then they'd come home and take over Earth.
OK, not that.

Orson Scott Card

#35. What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

Patti Stanger

#36. The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

H.L. Mencken

#37. Not to sound like the smartest guy in the room or anything, but...

Nathan Edmondson

#38. He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity about other people that he had the ability to make everyone around him feel smart and well-read.

Will Schwalbe

#39. We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

Jon Ronson

#40. The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#41. David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories.

R.E. Graswich

#42. I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.

Aaron Sorkin

#43. We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

Charlene Li

#44. I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

Douglas Coupland

#45. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Jack Black

#46. Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,

Nick Denton

#47. You, Baylor Irene Moore, are the most gorgeous and driven and smartest woman I've ever set eyes on. You're not even gone yet, and I miss you.

Toni Aleo

#48. There are two types of players: those who know and those who don't. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

Marcus Allen

#49. I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.

Chris Hayes

#50. Everyone knew Eleanor was the smartest person in their class. So when she said sabotage the rest of them went scrambling for the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Judy Blume

#51. You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#52. The smartest hackers understand that their skill at hacking technology may be less important than their skill at hacking the digital marketplace.

Douglas Rushkoff

#53. Sometimes it ain't about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain't about being the smartest. Sometimes it's not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it's about consistency! Consistency!

Eric Thomas

#54. Sometimes the smartest decision is the last one you want to make.

Joe Hart

#55. I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself with the smartest people who challenge you to think about things in new ways, and do something you are not ready to do so you can learn the most.

Marissa Mayer

#56. The dumbest thing I ever did? Buying a TV. The smartest thing I ever did? Giving that TV away.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#57. The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood.

Clive James

#58. I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

Sylvester Stallone

#59. I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest
sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

Charlie Munger

#60. Entertainment Weekly said that Parks and Rec is the smartest comedy on tv. Call me when it's the funniest.

Andy Kindler

#61. The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

Warren Buffett

#62. Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

Matthew William Goode

#63. I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you. I promise you that.

Austin Grossman

#64. My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.

Donny Deutsch

#65. The smartest, funniest, fastest, strongest content wins, regardless of how popular, good-looking, or renowned the post's author is. Anonymous neither accepts nor grants acclaim.

Cole Stryker

#66. We must question why the smartest students don't choose to become teachers.

Narendra Modi

#67. Obviously the name of the show is a joke, a friend of mine gave it to me. But some people are very literal. Sometimes you see things like "He's not the smartest man in the world! All he does is drink." Well, they're not listening very closely.

Greg Proops

#68. What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

Jose Ferreira

#69. I don't think that I'm the smartest guy around, so I'm better off to keep my mouth shut as much as I can rather than opening my mouth and proving to people that I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm more of a leader by example than I am a preacher.

Mark Martin

#70. The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.

Scott Ellis

#71. You're the best of us." A potent statement. "The best. The strongest, the smartest, and the one with a heart stubborn enough that it resisted Silence and cared for the most damaged among us.

Nalini Singh

#72. I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears.

Kanye West

#73. His heart filled his chest and ran to the end of his tail and the very tips of his considerable ears. It filled his head, squeezing out his brain. But Henri, the foundling, was a humanist, and while not particularly clever was the smartest creature Gamache knew. Everything he knew he knew by heart.

Louise Penny

#74. If you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.

T.D. Jakes

#75. ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

Steve Gleason

#76. The smartest man in the room doesn't visit many rooms.

Garrett McCoy

#77. The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament.

John McCain

#78. I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.

Robin S. Sharma

#79. Connor and Rose would belong to the smartest house in the wizarding world. No question. Before the sorting hat even touched their heads, it'd scream Ravenclaw!

Krista Ritchie

#80. The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

John C. Maxwell

#81. Science fiction fans are the smartest fans in television. They just are. They're just so smart, and they know so much detail and information. They're a part of the story and they inform your character, as well. We all listen to the fans, and we love their feedback and the attention they give us.

Azita Ghanizada

#82. In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

Robert L. Bartley

#83. Be the smartest at the table and you can wear whatever you want.

Natalie Massenet

#84. I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Matt Chandler

#85. The smartest people in the world hire people smarter than themselves.

Brad Sugars

#86. It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

Carol S. Dweck

#87. Even the European critics ... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.

Eli Roth

#88. I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

Bonnie Bassler

#89. J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

Donald Ray Pollock

#90. You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

Paula Radcliffe

#91. I'm very pleased when the smartest people come [to the U.S.] and almost never pleased when the very bottom of the mental barrel comes in ...

Charlie Munger

#92. I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

Douglas Rushkoff

#93. Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

Burt Bacharach

#94. In Jason Fried's book Rework, he writes that one of the smartest investments a business can make is in hiring great writers, and I completely agree. No

Sophia Amoruso

#95. As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

Zig Ziglar

#96. We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading.

Bill Gates

#97. Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

Scott Adams

#98. If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.

Chad Stahelski

#99. First Day at Harvard [10w]
Smartest kid in the room
walks into room of competitors.

Beryl Dov

#100. Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.

Lee Westwood