Quotes by Smart The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing. Guy Kawasaki smartlyingthinking Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth." Guy Kawasaki smartbelievethinking This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants. Hadley Freeman smartpocketssuccessful All the great enterprises of the world are run by a few smart men: their aides and associates run down by rapid stages to the level of sheer morons. Everyone knows that this is true of government, but we often forget that it is equally true of private undertakings. In the average great bank, or railroad, or other corporation the burden of management lies upon a small group. The rest are ciphers. H. L. Mencken smartrunninglying We are not smart enough to leave things to the market. Ha-Joon Chang smartenough When you get to that level, it's not a matter of talent anymore - because all the players are so talented - it's about preparation, about playing smart and making good decisions. Hakeem Olajuwon smartbasketballmotivational Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them. Guy Kawasaki smartbelievepeople Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher. Hakim Bey boredomsmartsweet I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella. Haley Barbour smartcountrythinking I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever. Halle Berry smartgrowing-upwhite You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the par excellence of intellectual activity. Smart people in search of a challenging board game might try a game called Go. Hans Berliner smartgamespeople Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission. Harald Haas smartmotivationinspiration Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in book than in magazine publishing. At the time, however, I just didn't feel I was enough: smart enough, savvy enough, well read enough, educated enough, charming enough. Much of this was probably because I was very naive, and didn't really know how to behave in an office. This made me a terrible assistant, which in turn made me a terrible junior book editor. Hanya Yanagihara smartbookpeople I always value people's opinions. I think a lot of people are really smart people, and when people say something, they do it for a reason. Harald Zwart smartpeoplethinking Sexuality is part of being a woman, it's part of what empowers us when we're smart enough to know how to use it. Halle Berry empoweringsmartuse As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans. Harold Ford, Jr. smartjobsamerica I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction. Harry Crews smartwritingbelieve When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn. Harry S. Dent smartrealopportunity I learned over the years that it's easy to appear smart referencing things that people don't know. Harold Ramis smartpeopleyears My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I learned from my parents is that the fancy degree is just a foot in the door, and there are a lot of very smart people out there who don't necessarily have the fancy degrees. And given the opportunity, they can do amazing things. Harry West smartsuccessfulschool«4546474849505152535455»
