If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
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Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life?
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.