A Quote by Marvin Olasky

Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

Marvin Olasky

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Marvin Olasky
American - Educator
Born: June 12, 1950

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Ben Horowitz

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

Justin Menkes

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Yuval Noah Harari

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George Tenet

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Robert Kiyosaki

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Peter Salovey

The two most important forms of intelligence are the ability to read other people and the ability to understand oneself.

Bruce Pandolfini

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Todd Solondz

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Stephen Fry

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Elbert Hubbard

As beavers build dams and bees build hives, human beings have spears. Or take the high intelligence of human beings, the ability to make plans, to transmit information - that was also there before, but that, together with the tools, was not enough to make man special.

Yuval Noah Harari

To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock; something more than intelligence is required to become an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Albert Einstein

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