Smart Quotes
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When I was a young man working 14 hour days, I traded using outrageous and terrifying leverage. I was either very lucky, very smart or very dumb. That’s what terrifies people about commodities. Commodities themselves are no riskier than stocks. A stock on margin has more risk than a commodity fully paid for. It’s all about the degree of leverage.
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I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.
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The audience is smart and catch on pretty quick when they are sold the same old thing.
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In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.
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When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.
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You can be labelled but if it doesn't speak to people then it won't work. The social media and online has been really important. Fans are really smart too: they don't want to hear something manufactured or something that has too much marketing behind it.
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I am the youngest of six. There's the smart one and the pretty one, and I am the loud one.
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I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.
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Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.
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Weird Al was something that kids would listen to. It's funny, super funny, smart. It's just kind of jokey. I remember hearing 'Smells Like Nirvana' before hearing 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.' That's how it really worked. I think it's just such a cool thing how he introduced us to so many cool bands. Even Queen - 'Another One Rides the Bus.'
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Some of the traits that make you a great entrepreneur also work against you. Examining data of high-scoring people, we find that oftentimes the world frustrates them: They're super-smart, they're super-capable, and the work quality of their peers is vastly inferior to what they can achieve on their own.
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Quite frankly, Oklahomans are pretty smart. They know how to choose candidates.
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People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.
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The economics establishment (universities, regulators, central bankers, government officials, various organisations staffed with economists) lost its legitimacy with the failure of the system. It is irresponsible and foolish to put our trust in the ability of such experts to get us out of this mess. Instead, find the smart people whose hands are clean.
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Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
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It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.
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For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.
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We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.
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I do consider myself to be a smart, tough girl.
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You could see Newt Gingrich, who`s a member of Donald Trump`s country club, already getting together and talking about the new episode of "The Apprentice," with the poor kids in the city.This was a very smart thing to do. He shows that he is the grown-up in the Republican Party.
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Why are so many very smart people not also rich? I guess they are too busy calculating risks rather than getting into action.
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You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile
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Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
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This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!
