Mike Pompeo Quotes

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

Game management is accomplished by staying constantly alert and then reading and reacting to potential problem situations before they materialize. It all boils down to paying attention to details.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

I'm not like a high intellectual.

The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

We need to be able to make decisions even though part of the information that we have is incorrect and wrong.

Intelligence is both critical and costly.

Intelligence is set by policy.

The Bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're in trouble.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

My IQ for the game is very high. I think that will help me out a lot.

I'm a firm believer in teaching children to manage risk.

The most valuable real estate in the world lies between the president's ears.