Quotes About Achievement

I went to a really smart school where all the kids go to the Ivy Leagues.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which a smart, ambitious, hardworking person without a huge amount of resources has a pretty good shot, in the end, of beating out a less smart, less ambitious, less hardworking rich person.

I was very invested in being smart and thought to be smart was more important than accomplishing anything in life.

I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

Work smart. Get things done.

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

I was just excited to have challenging work to do and smart people to work with.

The debate that I'm interested in having is with seriously smart people about how we design institutions in the 21st century that will genuinely address problems of poverty and educational underachievement.

I liked working with smart people.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

I would argue that's because we had a bunch of smart people running around here. They were coming in and working very hard and many of them had left jobs in which they made significantly more money.

I've been working with smart people who are the best at what they do and who fight to make the best-quality stuff. I'm very fortunate that these people have seen whatever they needed to see in me.

I'm working with Al Haymon, who is the best in boxing and he manages my career, and every time I fight he tells me, 'Look, you're only getting better and better, smarter and smarter, keep trying and one day we're going to get that big shot.' And sure enough, it happened.

There are plenty of people smarter than you by a long way. I just got lucky.

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.

Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.

When I was finishing my PhD, I could just see people who were a bit quicker and brighter and smarter than me and I thought, 'well they are the people who are going to make the great discoveries.'

I've got to work harder and smarter to get to the place where I truly belong.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

I knew that I wasn't the smartest kid in school, but I knew that I had a way to get out if I did the right things in sports.

I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.