Smartest One In The Room Quotes

#1. Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is realize you're not the smartest one in the room. 08-30-2011

Jan Thomas

#2. A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Robert Kiyosaki

#3. I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.

Bill Rancic

#4. 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

#5. If you got the balls to follow something through, you can end up being the coolest, smartest guy in the room, because you've literally put your ass on the line.

Steve Coogan

#6. That sometimes the smartest person in the room is the one who says, "I have no idea.

Gail Caldwell

#7. Seek to be the smartest in a room, not the loudest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room!

N.a.

#12. The single most important factor to getting rich is getting started, not being the smartest person in the room.

Ramit Sethi

#13. If you're the smartest person in the room ... find a different room. MICHAEL DELL

Anonymous

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Somebody said that if you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

John Ortberg

#19. The smartest person in the room, is the room.

David Weinberger

#20. 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

#21. I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Gary Oldman

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

John C. Maxwell

#23. 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

#24. Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

Mark Pincus

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Taylor Mali

#27. 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

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

Nathan Edmondson

#29. 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

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

T.D. Jakes

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

Garrett McCoy

#32. First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.

Jesse Eisenberg

#33. 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

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

Chad Stahelski

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

Beryl Dov

#36. 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

#37. Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

Barry Ritholtz

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Listen real hard to the smartest guy in the room before you go trying to prove how smart you are.

Lee Clow