Quotes About Acumen

The ability to learn quickly is the most important skill to have.

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

Business acumen is the term used to describe a person's understanding of various dimensions of a business that are "in play" as situations arise. This "business common sense" is built up over time, just like practitioners such as surgeons, musicians, or pilots get better with practice.

All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

wits strong and clear

I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

Intelligence once meant more than what any artificial intelligence does. It used to include sensibility, sensitivity, awareness, discernment, reason, acumen, and wit.

Servants, in my experience, always know everything.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

I believe being a good senator requires two things. Number one, acumen. Number two, interest.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

You haven't the brains God gave a cow,

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.

Leadership is IQ, it's not skills.

But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

Keep forgetting that y'all are freakishly informed about this stuff.

Knowledge is always there but wisdom is very rare.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

Look, the American people are smart.

Everybody can be smart.