Quotes About Acumen

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

My friends hate me because I do pick up things really quickly.

I feel I do not have script sense. Like Kartik Aaryan has a very good script sense.

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

He that is rich is wise.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

As the slap-dash sentences of a rushing critic express the hasty impatience of modern manners; so the deliberate emphasis, the slow acumen, the steady argument, the impressive narration bring before us what is now a tradition, the picture of the correct eighteenth-century gentleman, who never failed in a measured politeness, partly because it was due in propriety towards others, and partly because from his own dignity it was due most obviously to himself.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

One must use such brains as are to be found

I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.

Holmes, you have an answer to everything

It is my business to know things. That is my trade.

Mr. Holmes always knows whatever there is to know.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

I've used my business acumen that I've learned in corporate America and the platform that I've been fortunate to gain in the Bachelor world to kind of see if those two can work together.

My dad was a great business guy, and he always taught us that his business acumen would put his workers' kids through school, and their great artistry... would put my brothers and me through school.

I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

You have all the cleverness which makes a successful man. Have you the tact?

I love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing.