Aggressive Quote by Ben Stein

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

— Paul Krugman

Most people define "street smarts" as some innate ability to make savvy decisions, or one that has developed as a result of a person…

— Justin Menkes

The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular…

— Christopher Galvin

Those who have high business acumen display specific, identifiable cognitive skills that permit them to perform better than their peers. Once we understand that…

— Justin Menkes

Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.

— Steven Levitt

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…

— Michael Lewis

Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can…

— Peter Cundill

Smart people are no different than anyone else. Sometimes they exercise bad judgment, like we all do.

— Judy Smith

Ultimately, there is no definition for smartness. It's just the ability to do what you want to do really well.

— Twinkle Khanna

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth…

— Larry Ellison

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

— Dolly Parton