Warren Buffett
Investor, Businessman
"We don't have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest."
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Socrates
Philosopher
"I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you."
Russell Simmons
Entrepreneur, Music Producer
"Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you."
Charlie Munger
Investor, Businessman
"Go to bed smarter than when you woke up."
Nikola Tesla
Inventor, Electrical Engineer
"If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much."
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"Whoever makes you smarter a little earlier in life makes you better"
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"But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty."
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"Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?"
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"None of us is smarter than all of us."
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"Every writer at the New Yorker is smarter than me."
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"Only he [Gordon Gekko] is a lot smarter than [Donald] Trump."
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"I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom."
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"The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is."
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"But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter."
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"...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it."
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"There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are."
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"One thing you learn about the novel as a form is that it's always smarter than you are."
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"People think I'm smarter than I am."
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"I know I'm smarter than an armadillo"
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"Why isn't someone smarter than us doing this?"
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