Quotes About Overconfidence

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

fundamental flaw of modern capitalism is that businesses promote bombastic people. As Cameron Anderson and Sébastien Brion of the University of California, Berkeley, showed experimentally, 'In conditions where there is any ambiguity in competence and performance (which is common in organisations), overconfident individuals will be perceived as more competent by others, and attain higher levels of status, compared to individuals with more accurate self-perceptions of competence.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

But sometimes the strong mistake their strength

Our confidence in our invulnerability is the weakness he will profit from.