Smarter Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Father, Integrity, Humility

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

  Shane McCrae

  People, Way, Glad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Shop smarter and shop less. But please don't let that dissuade you from engaging in campaigns to make real lasting change.

  Annie Leonard

  Real, Lasting Change, Campaigns

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• I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long.

  Daniel Tosh

  Jobs, Iphone, Long

  Twitter post from May 24, 2012

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• When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.

  Lance Henriksen

  Thinking, Water, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.

  Malik Yoba

  People, Creative, Band

  "Malik Yoba Exclusive Interview ALPHAS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2011.

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• You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there are two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?

  Will Smith

  Life, Simple, Two

  "Actor-musician Will Smith". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 13, 2007.

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• In this country, a smart leader is suspect. That's just the way it is. Even George Bush's father, who was a lot smarter than the son, had to sort of prove that he wasn't that bright.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Father, Smart

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• Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.

  Bob Chiarelli

  Keys, Government, Long

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• Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Creativity, Goal

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• Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money.

  Dan Poynter

  Book, Looks, Want

  Dan Poynter (2003). “The self-publishing manual: how to write, print, and sell your own book”, Para Publishing

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• Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.

  Nick Willing

  Men, Political, Boat

  Source: collider.com

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• The person who has the guts to ask themselves 'Why?' at least once a week, and be totally honest with themselves about the answer, is already twenty steps ahead of their smarter, more experienced rival.

  Mark Bouris

  Twenties, Answers, Rivals

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• In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, People, Audience

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• Putting aside all the things that are said about Hillary [Clinton], my main difference with her is on the vision of what kind of society will make people's lives better. So this is a vision of society in which people are too evil or stupid to run their own lives, but those in power are perfectly capable of running everybody else's lives because they're so much smarter.

  Charles Koch

  Running, Stupid, Differences

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• He held my hand and told me a story about when he was six and threw a rock at a kid's head who was bullying his brother, and how after that no one had bothered either of them again. 'You have to stick up for yourself,' he told me. 'But it's bad to throw rocks,' I said. 'I know. You're smarter than me. You'll find something better than rocks.

  Nicole Krauss

  Bullying, Brother, Kids

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are.

  Jackie Warner

  People, Labels, Sugar

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Strong, Atheist, Philosophy

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• The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Family, Fathers Day, Dad

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• I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Marine, World

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• I am 10 times smarter than everyone else in this game. Beyond a shadow of a doubt.

  Brett Hull

  Hockey, Nhl, Games

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• We need to think harder and smarter. What we really need is holistic analysis, not holistic media data. We need to make better use of what we have. We need to dig deeper and ask, 'Do you need to repeat the whole study or can you examine the bits that have changed and re-calibrate?'

  Jenny Beck

  Business, Thinking, Media

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• People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.

  Rachel Kadish

  Thinking, Two, People

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.325, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I speak to kids I tell them, 'Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're going to get smarter as you get older.'

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Pain, Kids

  Charles Barkley (2002). “I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It”, p.28, Random House

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• Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

  Charles Darwin

  Building, Results, Mice

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