One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves — Niccolo Machiavelli
The good lawyer knows the law, the clever one knows the judge. — American Proverbs
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. — Plato
Cleverness is like rouge - liberal application makes a woman look common and desperate. Wit is knowing how to apply it. — Tessa Dare
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Short Shrewd Quotes
You can be a good human being and just be shrewd. — Natalie Dormer
Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. — Bible
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material. — Victor Hugo
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed. — Alexander Pope
Those who fled will fight another time. — Tertullian
If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you? — Katie Price
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing. — Mark Ruffalo
All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility. — Soren Kierkegaard
Shared Leadership Quotes
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it. — Howard Schultz
Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and your direction so that others grow and reach their potential. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
As a leader, your job is to share your vision with your followers and either warn them of danger or highlight opportunities coming in the future. — Lewis Howes
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. — Ken Blanchard
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. — Jerry I. Porras
In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions. — John Harvey-Jones
Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable. — Claude Taylor
When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained. — Lynn Hill
If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people. — Jim Rohn
The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility. — Frances Hesselbein
Sarcastic Quotes
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed! — William Shakespeare
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? — George Carlin
In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. — George Carlin
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. — Anton Chekhov
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well. — Mark Twain
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? — George Carlin
Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born? — Benny Hill
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target — Ashleigh Brilliant
Sarcastic Dog Quotes
For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy of God. You must flee these as you would wild beasts. For they are ravening dogs, who bite secretly, against whom you must be on your guard, since they are men who can scarcely be cured. — Ignatius of Antioch
The more I see of man, the more I like dogs. — Madame de Stael
At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date. — Edith Massey
Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog. — Harold Wilson
A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all. — James Boswell
Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions. — Tertullian
Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful. — Ritchie Blackmore
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. — John Brown
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I was one of the more talented ones at the design firm I joined, so I conducted my work pretty shrewdly. — Akira Toriyama
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. — Jerome Bruner
The elective franchise is withheld from one half of its citizens...because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicon graphical acrobatics, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black. — Mary Church Terrell
Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded. — Will Rogers
As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it. — Howard Thompson
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. — Robert A. Heinlein
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony. — John Calvin
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...People need to ask, "How do I play the hand that has been dealt me?" The world is not going to give you extra return just because you want it. You have to be very shrewd and hard working to get a little extra. It's so much easier to reduce your wants. There are a lot of smart people and a lot of them cheat, so it's not easy to win. — Charlie Munger
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected. — James MacGregor Burns
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar, for which Jews are above all known, and that is shrewdness in business. — Steven Pinker
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. — Charles Horton Cooley
A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less. — Michael Lewis
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation. — Charlie Munger
Why do you need street smarts? Shrewdness? Toughness? It's to protect something soft that is going to be in danger if it's exposed at the wrong time and place. It's to protect a soul. But to protect your soul, you have to have one to start with. — Peter Schjeldahl
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated. — John Dewey
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before. — Franz Grillparzer
O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce. — William Shakespeare
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon. — Lewis Mumford
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say. — Dan Quayle
What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now. — Jim Cramer
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous. — Jimmy Carter
It has been shrewdly said, that when, men abuse us we should suspect ourselves, and when they praise us, them. It is a rare instance of virtue to despise which censure which we do not deserve; and still more rare to despise praise which we do. — Charles Caleb Colton
The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it. — Jeremy Campbell
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. — W. Somerset Maugham
There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career. — Pal Benko
The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general. — Sun Tzu
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time. — John Gardner
Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose. — Soren Kierkegaard
Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have — Rahul Dravid
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. — Henry Ward Beecher
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant. — Maggie Shipstead
S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the way universities work, and his exploration of the culture of MIT is brilliant. — Paul E. Gray
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