Which of these people would you consider to be smartest / most intelligent?

Person A - Gets all As and A*s at GCSE and A level, then goes to a Russell Group University to study History.

Person B - Gets As/Bs and a few Cs at GCSE, leaves school after his GCSEs, starts a company by himself and makes millions in a few years, not because of luck but because of his strong business knowledge

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person B obvs

B without question

Clearly B, Intelligence is the ability to apply knowledge, not just store it in your brain.

Reply 4

Vikingninja

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Person A. Person B started with nothing and the company could have gone badly. Also their success doesn't make them more intelligent.

Reply 5

kieran12321LFC

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Original post by Cullen66

Person A - Gets all As and A*s at GCSE and A level, then goes to a Russell Group University to study History.

Person B - Gets As/Bs and a few Cs at GCSE, leaves school after his GCSEs, starts a company by himself and makes millions in a few years, not because of luck because of strong business and entrepeneurial knowledge

could be either but there's very few person Bs in the world

Reply 6

spiritless98

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Person B.

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TheDefiniteArticle

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"not because of luck but because of strong business knowledge"

lol, literally every successful business ever is mostly luck.

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Andy98

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B

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Reply 9

elohssa_59

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Eh not sure. Success does not equate to intelligence. Otherwise we might as well declare footballers as geniuses.

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tomtjl

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Original post by Cullen66

Person A - Gets all As and A*s at GCSE and A level, then goes to a Russell Group University to study History.

Person B - Gets As/Bs and a few Cs at GCSE, leaves school after his GCSEs, starts a company by himself and makes millions in a few years, not because of luck but because of his strong business knowledge

“I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.” - Bill Gates.

Reply 11

ForeignStudent34

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Original post by elohssa_59

Eh not sure. Success does not equate to intelligence. Otherwise we might as well declare footballers as geniuses.

But footballers achieve by success by being well trained and talented. While achieving success as a businessperson requires more intelligence than achieving success as a footballer world.

Reply 12

elohssa_59

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Original post by ForeignStudent34

But footballers achieve by success by being well trained and talented. While achieving success as a businessperson requires more intelligence than achieving success as a footballer world.

Depends on the business; someone like Steve Wozniak is very intelligent and had great success in business. But there are people who are less intelligent who had even more success e.g. Steve Jobs (he is obviously very smart as well - but has nothing on Wozniak)

Reply 13

math42

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Not enough information to decide. Motivation is key; starting a business takes a particular drive I think. Not necessarily a mercenary kind of perspective, as he may very much enjoy what he does, but nevertheless a distinct perspective which I do not think is decided by intelligence. And "not because of luck but because of his strong business knowledge" is pretty laughable; there simply has to be a component of luck as far as I'm concerned, at least for that degree of success.