Daniel Goleman Quotes

The fact is that most people who have no skill have no education for the same reason—low intelligence or ambition.

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.

I wasn't stupid, or very smart. I didn't finish my education.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

Some people just don’t have high enough IQs to compete.

IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success.

The average IQ in America is - and this can be proven mathematically - average.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

If it weren't for my education, I truly wouldn't be as successful at my job as a model.

I was a smart kid.

It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.

The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years. … Steve Jobs finished high school with a 2.65 G.P.A., J.K. Rowling graduated from the University of Exeter with roughly a C average, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got only one A in his four years at Morehouse.

Chicago's where I started my career. I've had a lot of success playing here.

I never could have imagined or dreamed where my career would be taking me the way it has with the Goldust character. It's awesome.

I want to explore the borders between being a genius and being an idiot.

You base your career on success.

I learned a lot from my career.

Many people have told me I could be a coach, but it doesn't appeal.

And since I have become an actor, not one person has asked me what degree I got.

In my head, that climb up the career ladder just doesn't exist. I feel I've achieved everything I set out to achieve, as far as work goes.