Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
As good and as smart as you may be, no one knows everything. I truly wish I was as smart as I thought I was when I started my first company.
I don't have to be smarter than anybody else. I've just plain worked harder and longer than anybody else.
They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.
I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
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