A Quote by Dave Winer
Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
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I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.
Of the two smartest creatures on the earth, man and the dolphin, each thought they were smarter than the other. Man thought he was smarter because he built many things and did much work, while the dolphins just played all day. The dolphins thought they were smarter for the same reason.
I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.
In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
I frequently run into this, where I genuinely feel like - and this is not just my head cold talking right now - I often, and this is going to sound weird, but I often feel like the guy who makes these movies is smarter than me. Smarter than the guy on the phone right now.
A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.
My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
The President of the United States again, whether you guys like the guy, you dislike the guy, he's the smartest person that I've ever worked for. So let Vanity Fair write about that, I honestly don't care. He has intuition, he has judgement and he has a temperament in a way that I have never seen.
In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.
Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.
I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.
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