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Quotes About Overestimating

The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.
~ Jim Highsmith
Zealots are always ready to take over. No one ever thought it could happen here, but we were overestimating human beings. Turns out it's easy to convert more people to a cause that takes power from others, that thrives on meanness.
~ Silas House
The consequences of overestimating a company and your ability to analyse it are greatly diminished when you're paying a lot less for it than your analysis shows it is worth.
~ Whitney Tilson
You are totally overromanticizing dirt.
~ Neal Stephenson
More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
~ Orison Swett Marden