Quotes About Acumen

Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

I hate to be smart.

I do believe all actors are smart.

I believe in smart people.

I'm a little smarter than most.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

You are just your intelligence.

If you boost your financial intelligence, moreover, you will very likely stand out from the crowd.

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

Unfortunately, the premise that employees are incapable of exercising judgment tends to be self-validating. First, jobs stripped of interesting cognitive work are unlikely to attract individuals looking to exercise their problem-solving skills. Second, overly scripted jobs give employees little opportunity to disprove the bureaucratic hypothesis that acumen correlates with rank. And third, after living for a few months in a reign of rules, most employees will quit or mentally check out.

I don't often think of Donald Trump, but his daughter is very smart. She's a woman working in real estate, which is predominantly men, and she's both savvy and articulate about her business and her business acumen.

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

Some people have quick retention. I'm not one of those.

The great thing about knowing stuff is that anyone can do it.

As a kid, I always assumed the know-it-alls on Jeopardy! were obviously the smartest people in America. If you were smart, that's how you showed it: by knowing all your state flowers and kings of Saxony. But what if Rob's right and that's a different, much shallower kind of intelligence? Is my mountain of flash cards all for naught?

you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.

I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the prose is old or the prose is too complex. I just fell in love with Jane's very lonely soul, much the same way I fell in love with Frankenstein's creature for the same reason. Those old souls exist in every decade in every century.

general or specialized knowledge. An educated man

Versatility. General knowledge of the important subjects of current interest

How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart.