A. J. Jacobs
A. J. Jacobs

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

A. Whitney Brown
A. Whitney Brown

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

Abigail Spencer
Abigail Spencer

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

Adam Brody
Adam Brody

I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.

Adam Cohen
Adam Cohen

It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.

Adam Grant
Adam Grant

From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

Adam Neumann
Adam Neumann

I try to surround myself with people smarter than me - if I'm the smartest guy in the room, I change rooms.

Aileen Lee
Aileen Lee

There's an opportunity to make your board - and your company - smarter by adding diversity, especially of gender.

Al Lewis
Al Lewis

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

Chris Long
Chris Long

The older you get, it is harder to prepare physically, even if you have all the experience in the world. You're more sore the next day, you can't pack in as much, and you have to train smarter. You have to pay attention to more subtle things like your warmup routine or core work.