Quotes About Acumen

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

Sometimes I feel bad for the girls because they aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. In fact, they're more like a couple of dull butter knives that were left in the grass outside of the shed.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Knowledge is better than riches. ~ Cameroonian Proverb

I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.

I said, 'Don't talk rot, Old Tom Travers. I am not accustomed to talk rot, he said. Then, for a beginner, I said, you do it dashed well.

You are quite acute for a mental stillborn

Clever men will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

It is easier to make money from money than it is to make money from business. Don't take the acumen of bankers as any guide for business, all they know is money.

I have to think that I think it's always been a horse race between this administration's temporary political acumen and their completely, utterly, totally bankrupt policies. And they're coming home to roost. It was always a question of time. These guys aren't conservative. These guys are radicals.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.

Learning is borrowed knowledge; genius is knowledge innate.

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

Goodness is helpless without wits

Whatever faults he had, stupidity wasn't one of them.