You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Be smarter than other people just don't tell them so.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

If there are no stupid questions then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

A smart man makes a mistake learns from it and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Be as smart as you can but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

It's not that I'm so smart it's just that I stay with problems longer.

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.

I think my sense of humor is Jewish. I'm smarter than most white people which is kind of a Jewish thing too.

I think it's because it's so different and it takes risks. Plus it's really smart humor. It gives the audience credit in terms of not needing to tell them when to laugh. I love that about the show. There's no laugh track.

I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor interest curiosity and really being smart.

I think up until the point when we started in the business which was in the early '70s most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor when they are smart when they have some sense of style when they are kind when they express their own opinions when they are creative when they have character.

Everyone knows that exercise can improve your health. Exercise is a key part of managing your weight and maintaining healthy hearts lungs and other bodily systems. But did you know that exercise can make you more productive? The latest research shows that a regular exercise routine can make you happier smarter and more energetic.

Well what did we buy? Instead of a leaner smarter government we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy and which will put 16 500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

We designed both our state employee health plans and the one we created for low-income Hoosiers as Health Savings Accounts and now in the tens of thousands these citizens are proving that they are fully capable of making smart consumerist choices about their own health care.

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc. - then you'll appeal to red-state voters.

The great person is ahead of their time the smart make something out of it and the blockhead sets themselves against it.

I have great people smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.