Surround Yourself With Smart People Quotes

#1. If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
(Isaac Jaffe, Sports Night)

Aaron Sorkin

#2. Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

John Wooden

#3. Wrestling is an art form. I don't worry about those who don't get it; I worry about satisfying those who do.

Paul Heyman

#4. I speak languages with more ease than I read or write them, she explains. It is something in the feel of the sounds. I could attempt to put them on paper but I am sure the result would be appalling.

Erin Morgenstern

#5. You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

William Shatner

#6. The way I've always governed my life as far as fiscal policy goes is I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb about it, so I surround myself with smart people in much the same way a hole surrounds itself with a doughnut. I just pay things off. That's all I do.

Dennis Miller

#7. Surround yourself with smart, dedicated people - to build something isn't a one-man show. It's more important to have smart people who really believe in what you're doing than really experienced people who may not share your dream.

Niklas Zennstrom

#8. Only Peter Rabbit didn't get any. Don't you remember?" said Grandfather. "He will this time," said Joe. "At last Peter Rabbit has his blackberries and cream, on his birthday.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

#9. Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

Aaron Sorkin

#10. Motivation begins with discomfort- with needs that are unfulfilled.

Susan Maushart

#11. I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

Barbara Mandrell

#12. That continuous, unnamed ache I had been living with was precise and definable now. Call it the foretaste of being hated. I knew ahead of time that if someone looked at me with hate, I would have to allow it, to swallow it, because something in me, something about me deserved it.

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

#13. The reality is that I surround myself with very smart, very strong people - including my ex-wives.

Ronald Perelman