My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.

Alexis Ohanian

I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.

Aaron Sorkin

Time Life Art

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

Adam Carolla

Art Well Vote

I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.

Adam Neumann

Change Art Wit

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Intelligence Art Without

My entire career has been built on the understanding that I am not only not the smartest person in the room, I am definitely not the smartest person in the world. And I am instead going to try to create as many opportunities to connect those great ideas and help them be great.

Alexis Ohanian

Great Car Art

Science fiction is one of the smartest genres around because you have to have so much forethought.

Amanda Schull

Science Art You

JaVale McGee is one of the smartest guys I know. Like, he's a nerd, plays with gadgets, and is into technology. He's funny - he's got crazy jokes, and his timing with jokes is really funny. You have to be really smart to think the way he does.

Andre Iguodala

Technology Funny Art

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

Andy Kindler

History Art World

I want to be known as a guy who, regardless of circumstance, always gave 100 percent, always went the hardest and the smartest. Pray up, inspiration to God, put in what I get out.

Antonio Brown

God Art Who

At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

Work Art Worked

I always felt second best. I was never the prettiest, never the skinniest, never the fastest in my sports. Never the smartest, because I have dyslexia. Then, all of a sudden, people were like, 'You're gorgeous.' And I was like, 'What?'

Ashley Graham

Sports Art You

With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

Barry Ritholtz

Men Art Your

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

Barry Ritholtz

Imagination Art Age

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

Ben Fountain

Future Art Writing

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

Ben Stein

Art Wit Wind

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

Bennett Miller

Love Business Art

I had a conversation with John Cena, and I told him, 'If only I could be a giant with abs,' and he said, 'Maybe you could be a giant with abs.' That kind of got me thinking that maybe John was onto something, because when it comes to obviously being successful and marketable, John is one of the smartest people I've been around.

Big Show

Success Art You

I'm never the smartest guy in the room. I'm willing to work harder than most people around me, come earlier, stay later.

Bill Rancic

Work Art Work Hard

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

Bill Richardson

Education Art Age

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

Bjorn Lomborg

War Knowledge Good

I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

Bonnie Bassler

Some of the people at Ripple I think are truly the smartest people I've ever worked with in my career, which makes it a lot of fun to go to work every day.

Brad Garlinghouse

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

Brad Pitt

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

Burt Bacharach

It's one thing for a father to say, 'Oh, my son is great.' But to have others say it - that's the true reward. Robbie's one of the smartest people I know. He's made such fantastic movies.

Carl Reiner

Ed Norton is probably one of the smartest people I've ever met.

Cary Fukunaga

The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.

Cathy Engelbert

If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.

Chad Stahelski

Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.

Charles Murray

Knicks fans are the smartest in the world and they know you can't just play one end of the court.

Charles Oakley

Whenever people talk about dyslexia, it's important to know that some of the smartest people in the world, major owners of companies, are dyslexic. We just see things differently, so that's an advantage. I just learn a different way; there's nothing bad about it.

Charlotte McKinney

The funny thing about directing is that you have your own opinions, but it's a collaboration. Directing is a group effort. Even though you might think something works, the smartest thing you can do as a director is try and weigh the opinions of the people around you.

Chris Evans

I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.

Chris Hayes

One of the smartest investments we can make in Connecticut is in job training programs.

Chris Murphy

Uber has an information advantage, a computational advantage. There's massive structural advantages to the player who's smartest about how to deploy cars, where to deploy cars, how to adjust pricing dynamics, how to ensure supply of drivers - the party that understands best the behavior of riders.

Chris Sacca

The ones who are the smartest are the ones who use us. In other words, they understand the relationship between the press and leaders.

Connie Chung

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Corey Taylor

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

D'Angelo Russell

I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.

Dabo Swinney

I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.

Daniel Goleman

Tom Daschle is one of the smartest guys in Washington.

Daniel Pfeiffer

One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her. She obviously knows me incredibly well and what I'm going through. I don't know that I've been as helpful to her as she has been to me.

Dave Goldberg

My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Dave Goldberg

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

Dave Winer

With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.

David Garrow

Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.

Dean Cain

I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

Dennis Quaid

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to tell it. I often will go through a manuscript crossing stuff out, and say, 'This is just too much,' you know?

Don Winslow

My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person.

Donald Trump