Smart Person Quotes

• Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Success, Teacher

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Wise, Wisdom

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.153, B&H Publishing Group

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• Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

  Steve Wozniak

  Work, Smart, Doors

  Saturday keynote speech, The Fifth HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference, July 10, 2004.

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• You know, I'm, like, a smart person.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Persons, Knows

  "Exclusive: Donald Trump on Cabinet picks, transition process". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. December 11, 2016.

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• Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

  Ron Silver

  Smart, People, Attention

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• It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

  Carol Bartz

  Smart, Passion, Years

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• I don't think Mitt Romney is a smart person. I never have thought he was a smart person. But the Mormons are very smart people.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When you strip the bark off of Donald Trump, I think he's a very practical person. I think he's a very smart person. He's got an analytical mind. I think he's tapped into something. His son said he's the "blue collar billionaire."

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Smart, Son, Thinking

  Source: gawker.com

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• [Betsy DeVos] is quite a smart person, capable, pretty sophisticated in subtle thought. And so to me, that puts her in the realm of policy. But we're in a climate where, as today, she tries to visit a school, and she can't even do that because protesters are blocking that.

  David Brooks

  Block, Smart, School

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I'm not going to change it, because I think Mitt Romney has proven to be not a smart person.

  Donald Trump

  Smart, Thinking, Persons

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Smart, Thinking, Rooms

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• Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Smart, Worthwhile

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.203, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, Smart, Long

  George W. Bush's remarks in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008.

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• All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.

  Steve Wozniak

  Smart, Computer, Internet

  "Apple's Steve Wozniak: 'We've lost a lot of control'" by Mark Milian, www.cnn.com. December 08, 2010.

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• Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Smart, Fighting, Enough

  Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

  Maggie Gyllenhaal

  Smart, Come Up, Advertisements

  "Why Maggie Gyllenhaal never wants her daughter to look herself up online". Interview with Andrea Peterson, www.washingtonpost.com. February 3, 2016.

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• A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

  Neal Stephenson

  Religious, Smart, People

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• People think Paris [Hilton] is a ditzy blond, and I don't want to blow it for her, but she plays it really well. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's actually a pretty smart person. She's very cognizant of what she's doing, and she kind of plays that role, so people think she's some airhead but she's really not.

  Simon Rex

  Smart, Blow, Thinking

  Source: www.mediaite.com

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• No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

  Stephen King

  Smart, Really Smart, Persons

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Country, Smart, Believe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot.

  Randall Dale Adams

  Smart, Arguing, Idiot

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• A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them.

  William Petersen

  Smart, Answers, Persons

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• I think nobody is in a position to react to these big macro-issues. Where is the dollar going to be or what is G.D.P. growth going to be in China? For every smart person on one side of the question, there is another smart person on the other side.

  David F. Swensen

  Smart, Thinking, Issues

  "Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor : The System Is Rigged Against You, Can You Beat the Odds Or Should You Stay On the Sidelines?" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2008.

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• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  Halle Berry

  Art, Thinking, Done

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