Quotes of: Shrewd Keyword

Everything about me is pretty and a lot of it is shrewd. So I had a pretty shrewd idea what was going on.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

C. Thomas Howell

The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

Katie Price

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

Rod Stewart

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

One for the Books

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

Rex Stout

Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

Warren Bennis

Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.

This Real Night

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

Rod Stewart

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

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Four Ways to Forgiveness

Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.

Gregory David Roberts

For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.

Jeremiah 4 22

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