Smart Quotes - Page 31

• I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general.... They win battles, and they make me lucky.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Winning, Luck, Battle

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• The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand.

  James May

  Reality, Air, Demand

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• There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Time, Clever

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• He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Complaining, Tongue, Wit

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• I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Technology, Impact

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• [Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

  Bill Gates

  Creativity, Technology, People

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• Lack of candor blocks smart ideas, fast action, and good people contributing all the stuff they've got. It's a killer.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Block, Ideas

  Jack Welch, Suzy Welch (2009). “Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Ducks

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• Smart marketing is about help not hype.

  Jay Baer

  Hype, Marketing, Helping

  Jay Baer, Darren Root (2014). “Youtility for Accountants: Why Smart Accountants Are Helping, Not Selling (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)”, p.12, Penguin

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• There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don't let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It's amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, "Failure is not an option." People are galvanized.

  Donny Deutsch

  Inspirational, Failure, Yankees

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• As you may have heard, the U.S. is putting together a constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? Think about it - it was written by very smart people, it's served us well for over two hundred years, and besides, we're not using it anymore.

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, Two, Iraq

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• It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Responsibility, Science

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• On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he was writing-after a pause came the reply, 'Perhaps seven.'

  Arthur Eddington

  Writing, Science, People

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• Talkers have always ruled. They will continue to rule. The smart thing is to join them.

  Bruce Barton

  Communication, Talkers

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• One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Stupid, Inspire

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• For a woman to be able to dominate and also be feminine and soft, that's a talent. And its not all about appearance. A woman who has a brain, who is street-smart and book-smart, that woman is very, very sexy to me.

  Usher

  Sexy, Book, Brain

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• You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience, there is simply no way to acquire all the wisdom you need to make your business thrive.

  Donald Trump

  Success, Wisdom, Business

  Donald J. Trump (2004). “Trump: The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received”, p.17, Crown Business

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• Pretty isn't the only thing that matters - being smart and kind matters more, of course - but all daughters should hear from their moms that they look pretty once in a while.

  Meg Cabot

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

  Lewis Blaine Hershey

  Honesty, Stupid, Silly

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• I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

  Francis Gary Powers

  Airplane, Justice, Flying

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• I didn't accept it. I received it.

  Richard Allen

  Accepting

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• He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.

  Richard Darman

  Reading, Political, Wetlands

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• They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

  Joseph D. Early

  Book, Politics, Checks

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• Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

  Michael J. Saylor

  Intelligent, Data, Retail

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• If we wait for conditions to go from good to perfect, we'll just be waiting, waiting, waiting.

  Bill Simon

  Perfect, Waiting, Retail

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