Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America.
There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.
There's a lot of smart women doing dumb things with their health, and I fell into that category as well.
If some guy said this to me, I wouldn't listen either, but one-rep max-outs are the dumbest things you can do to yourself.
Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.
People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.
I have done some pretty dumb things. I am not going to lie. I see the things I have done. And I have done some dumb things.
What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.
I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.
We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.
