Top 100 Smarter Than You Quotes
#1. Hire people who are smarter than you are - whose talents surpass yours - and give them opportunities for growth. It's the smart thing to do and it is a sign of high personal humility.
Bruna Martinuzzi
#2. Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.
Ashton Kutcher
#3. Hanging around people you're smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#4. If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.
Nolan Bushnell
#5. I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few ... I just might be smarter than YOU
Ice-T
#6. 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
#7. Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.
St. Vincent
#8. There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.
Gerry Harvey
#9. I think kids are smarter than you think.
Steve Wiebe
#10. A Canadian psychologist is selling a video that teaches you how to test your dog's IQ. Here's how it works: if you spend $12.99 for the video, your dog is smarter than you.
Jay Leno
#11. If you hire people who are smarter than you, maybe you are showing that you are a little bit smarter than them.
Howard Wilkinson
#12. You're smarter than you look,' I say to Raffe.
'But not as smart as he thinks,' says Howler.
'I can see discipline has broken down during your vacation,' says Raffe.
'Yeah, it's all that lounging on the beach with nothing to do but drink and watch women.
Susan Ee
#14. How do you know about all this?"
"I just happen to be smarter than you is all.
Kiersten White
#15. Smart is knowing if you're dumb. Knowing when to shut up and to listen to people that are smarter than you.
Chris Rock
#16. I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
Socrates
#17. I believe that you believe that. But this thing, whatever it is, it's tricky. Manipulative. A liar. And it's smarter than you."
"I'll try not to be offended by that."
"You shouldn't be."
"What do you think it is?"
"Something very old and very evil.
C.K. Walker
#18. Your audience is a lot smarter than you realize.
Angela Kinsey
#19. I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.
Keith Olbermann
#20. Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Terence McKenna
#21. The real skill is to manage and reward the people who are smarter than you in some technical area. That is why companies have a board of directors.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#22. My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
Donny Deutsch
#23. You are braver than you believe,
Stronger than you seem,
And smarter than you think(:
A.A. Milne
#24. You're smarter than you look. Did you ever have anti-terrorist training?" "Sort of. I was married.
Nelson DeMille
#25. Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.
Michael J. Gelb
#26. Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat.
Ed Catmull
#27. Occasions when you can change your mind should be cherished, because they mean you're smarter than you were before.
Malcolm Gladwell
#28. You're probably smarter than you present yourself.
Norman Granz
#29. Love what you do. There's always going to be someone else who's smarter than you, but there's no substitute for passion. People who are passionate always work the hardest, and that sets them apart.
Ivanka Trump
#30. LIFE IS TOUGH WHEN YOU ARE ALWAYS TALKING TO PEOPLE SMARTER THAN YOU ...
Chetan Bhagat
#31. Find some people you give a shit about. Who care about you. Who are smarter than you are. Find a woman. Who laughs at you. Who'll kick your ass out of the house. You find that woman and she's the same woman who'll throw herself in front of a truck for you? Well, then you're somewhere.
Alexander Maksik
#32. Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
Ben Bradlee
#33. When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
Tony Kushner
#34. If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#36. Dealing with one who feels smarter than you,
let him assume that you ain't smarter than him.
Toba Beta
#37. People are smarter than you might think.
John Astin
#38. But look at it this way," Stevie Rae broke in. "Aphrodite figured it out. So are you sayin' she's smarter than you?"
Kramisha's eyes narrowed."I got a whole world of smart than that rich white girl don't know nothin' about."
"Well than cowboy up.
P.C. Cast
#39. Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.
Lorrie Moore
#40. It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
Daniel H. Wilson
#41. To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.
Joshua Michael Stern
#42. All The Rules In This World Were Made By Someone No Smarter Than You. So Make Your Own.
Jaden Smith
#43. You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
From A. A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh
Susana Gordon
#44. If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. ... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But, the most important thing is, even if we're apart ... I'll always be with you.
Emily Murdoch
#45. Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.
Andrew Stanton
#46. For a moment the mole let his disappointment show on his snout. Then he grunted, "You're much smarter than you smell." Liza let out a whoop of satisfaction and chose not to worry too much about what stupidity smelled like.
Lauren Oliver
#47. The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
Al Lewis
#48. Money is a powerful force. don't use it against you. If your self-discipline and financial intelligence are low, money will run over you. It will be smarter than you to take over your life.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#49. People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
Tim Ferriss
#50. First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise, you'll think you're a lot smarter than you are.' But he had tremendous values, tremendous integrity, humility, work ethic and terrific thirst for knowledge.
Charles Koch
#51. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to lover her.
John Green
#52. Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.
Mitchell Baker
#53. What do we got on the chopping block? And by the way, I'm smarter than you. My IQ is off the charts, man. If the chart only reached fifty, then yeah. No need to tax his poor brain with numbers, though.
Gena Showalter
#54. You can write anything you want to,
a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.
Brenda Ueland
#55. Reverence for those wiser, older, and smarter than you. Appreciation for those kinder, gentler, and nicer than you. And utmost worship for those who could fucking annihilate you without a single thought. Grasping
Pepper Winters
#56. In Guy's mind, "I'm smarter than you are," must always be equal to "I'm righter than you are.
Travis Clemmons
#57. There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.
Jessa Crispin
#58. One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?
Nicholas Sparks
#59. You are stronger than you seem,
Braver than you believe,
and smarter than you think you are.
A.A. Milne
#60. Have you ever felt as if other people were smarter than you? Quicker on the uptake? Zombies feel this way every day.
Scott Kenemore
#61. When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
Robert Henry Grant
#62. Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.
Michael Ondaatje
#63. The thing about computers - it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.
Frank Herbert
#64. Act smarter than you are and always know where your exit is in case you get into too much trouble.
Vanilla Ice
#65. You've got to keep things simple. Just identify what you need to do to launch, figure out what resources you need, and surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you!
Tim Johnson
#66. You'll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.
Tibor Kalman
#67. Be thankful his majesty is your protection, his glory is your motivation, his grace is your help, and his wisdom is your direction. He is infinitely smarter than you and me in our most brilliant moments
Paul David Tripp
#69. You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.
John Cassavetes
#70. There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
P. J. O'Rourke
#71. She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her.
John Green
#72. Any time you had a cipher, you were vulnerable to someone smarter than you coming up with a way of breaking it.
Cory Doctorow
#73. In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.
David Heyman
#74. There's a moment where Jobs says that one day you will wake up and realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you. I want people to believe that; we're so often bound by obstructions and judges.
Joshua Michael Stern
#75. Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.
Azim Premji
#76. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything you call life was made up by people no smarter than you.
Steve Jobs
#78. Love always finds you, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. It knows your hiding places. It's smarter than you'll ever be.
Katie Kacvinsky
#79. You're braver than you believe and stronger and smarter than you think.
A.A. Milne
#80. You must always remember... You are braver than you believe, Stronger than you seem, and Smarter than you think." ~Christopher Robin
Brandy Lynn
#81. I am not as smart as you. I'm just smarter than you. Where is my Granola Bar, by the way?
Alankrita Verma
#82. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is.
John Green
#85. Listen to the characters that you create. They have a lot to say and they're smarter than you think." - Christy King
Christy King
#86. If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#87. People love solving puzzles, and you always love it when somebody smarter than you is solving puzzles.
Rebecca Eaton
#88. Nature may be dumb as a sack of hammers, Zeb used to say, but it's smarter than you.
Margaret Atwood
#89. The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you.
Steve Almond
#90. They may be smarter than you. They may have more money than you. They may come from a different city or a better family. But they can NEVER outwork you. And they can NEVER outprepare you. And they just can't outpractice you. And that's why you'll win.
Robin Sharma
#91. The main message of 'Smarter Than You Think' is an attempt to look at the productively new and interesting ways that we have begun to learn about the world, to think about what we found, and to mull it over and argue about it with other people as we use technology.
Clive Thompson
#93. Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.
Jeremy Clarkson
#94. Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.
John Scalzi
#95. If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
Russell Banks
#96. Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
John Wayne
#97. I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
Robert Barry
#98. Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.
Orson Scott Card
#99. I knew those fuckers were smarter than they appeared. Dammit, first they're runners, now they're climbers. They're breaking all the fucking zombie rules! Juan looked personally insulted by this development.
Rhiannon Frater
#100. The behavioral bias solution is a clear focus on disciplined and systematic investing. Stop with the discretion and trying to be smarter than your peers and focus on a set of clear rules that can actually diminish or eliminate these biases.
Anonymous
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