James Cleverly Quotes

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right.

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

Being cool is not exactly at the top of my list.

I'm not trying to become popular.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

I don't mind not being cool.

Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Rather be dead than cool.

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

If you start out saying you want to be cool, you won't be cool.

You don't have to be the cool party guy, getting everyone's attention.

If you try too hard to fit in you become something you are not.

Like any other kid, I was trying so hard to fit in that school made no sense to me. I wasn't attending class; I was trying to hang out in the caf with the cool kids. I was always trying to be cool.

Leadership is not a contest of likeability. Leadership often boils down to making the tougher choices. You are not in a popularity contest.

I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in.

I didn't want to act like I'm too cool for school or anything like that.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

I want to do well and I want to fit in.

I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.