Top 31 Quotes About The Smartest Person In The Room
#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. I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
Barbara Kingsolver
#3. Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room
Taylor Mali
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. If you are the smartest person in a room, you are in the wrong room.
T.D. Jakes
#7. Savings is no longer about the markets, they're about playing the product game.
Martin Lewis
#8. Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.
Justin Sane
#9. The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.
John C. Maxwell
#10. Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.
Ndamukong Suh
#11. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.
Oli Anderson
#12. In the time it takes to heat a TV dinner, Clinton had convinced me that he was the smartest person in the room and that I was the center of his attention. In the next 25 years, I would see countless others fall just as quickly to the Clinton Touch.
Ron Fournier
#13. The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
Home Run Baker
#15. That sometimes the smartest person in the room is the one who says, "I have no idea.
Gail Caldwell
#16. I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.
Drew Seeley
#17. I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
Jack Welch
#18. Leaning forward, Cinder spoke very clearly. "I have a computer in my brain," she said. "So while I'm not going to tell you that I am the smartest or, by any means, the most experienced person in this room, I would suggest that no one use my youth to believe that I am also ignorant.
Marissa Meyer
#19. Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey."
"That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age."
"Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses.
Joss Stirling
#20. If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room!
N.a.
#21. The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.
Ramit Sethi
#22. If you're the smartest person in the room ... find a different room. MICHAEL DELL
Anonymous
#23. Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people ... or find a different room.
Michael Dell
#24. It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.
Melissa Rosenberg
#25. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W.C. Fields
#26. I have a computer in my brain,' she said.'So while I'm not going to tell you that I am the smartest or, by any means, the most experienced person in this room, I would suggest that no one use my youth to believe that I am ignorant.' Cinder
Marissa Meyer
#27. Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions.
Rick Cook
#28. Somebody said that if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
John Ortberg
#30. I always want to push myself, even though I'm not in the entire thing. My friend Taylor says, "If you're the smartest person in the entire room, you're in the wrong room."
Selena Gomez
#31. I won't just have a job; I'll have a calling. I'll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I'll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.
Angela Duckworth
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