Quotes About Intelligence

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

The mind is one of Allah's best designs.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

The most successful people in life have the best information

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

If you don't hire at least one or two people that are smarter than you are, then you're a terrible manager and I don't need you.

I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it's about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.

You'll go out of business if you think people are stupid.

In a commodity business, it's very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.

Anybody can cut prices but it takes brains to produce a better article.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

Humans are the worst control system to put in front of a car.