Words matter. These are the best Shrewd Quotes from famous people such as Rod Stewart, Joshua Slocum, Michael Dirda, Jackie Robinson, Katie Price, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I’m shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and – well, let it go at that.
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I’m not going to diss them. But you don’t really have any guarantees that what you’re reading wasn’t written out of friendship or spite.
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
If you want to stay in the business then you’ve got to be a bit shrewd, haven’t you?
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.
You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark – a funny and shrewd guy – into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.
Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.
My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don’t know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
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.
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.
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
My dad’s a very shrewd, clever guy.
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, ‘If you couldn’t care less what anyone says about you, then it’s not courage.’
Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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.
