Quotes About Overconfidence

their lack of empathy imposes no brake on the punishment they mete out to real or imagined opponents. Nor does it allow any consideration of the human costs of another of their DSM symptoms: their "fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love," which may be realized in rapacious conquest, pharaonic construction projects, or utopian master plans. And we have already seen what overconfidence can do in the waging of war.

It's alright to have a good opinion of yourself, but we Americans are so smug with our cockiness, we somehow feel that just because we are Americans, we can whip our weight in wildcats.

We all have faults in life. Mine is that I sometimes rely on my athletic ability a little too much. When I'm having success and things are going good, that's the lull that I fall into. It's my worst enemy.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself.

I look back at the first Groves fight, and it was all so bad, so wrong. Everyone was telling me it was going to be easy, the bookies, everyone. Like an unprofessional fool, like an idiot, I listened to them. I didn't give myself the best possible chance.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I think I had become over-confident in my approach towards my work and with people around me. I admit that I'd started sounding pompous and self-obsessed.

He suggests there are only three reasons why Ryanair might fail - 'nuclear war in Europe, a major accident o believing our own bullshit

can be so dangerous; the more you know going in, the less likely you are to probe a stock for weaknesses. This pernicious form of overconfidence is called "home

In our age, mankind collectively has given itself over to a degree of hubris surpassing everything known in former ages.

The officers who are over-sure, and "know it all like a book," are the ones, I have observed, who wreck the most ships and lose the most lives.

I love the story behind the Vasa Museum: in the 17th century, the Swedish king was trying to make a statement by building a huge ship that would sail around Europe carrying the Swedish flag and proving that we were a force to be reckoned with, and basically, the ship was top-heavy, and so it went 300 or so yards and sank.

Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment." The authors, Brad Barber and Terrance Odean

He bore a certain "hubris," she thought, of the kind that carries with it the seeds of its own destruction. Everything about Robert's personality— from his abrupt, jerky way of walking to such little things as the making of a salad dressing—displayed, she thought, "a great need to declare his preeminence.

I don't want to say that when you're an athlete, you take things for granted, but you do. We're supposed to go out and think we're invincible. We're not.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

He was very cock sure of himself. He came at me and threw a big slow right, but he was so slow that he had telegraphed it to me and I'm ready for it and block it. I put a couple of big jabs on him and he went down like the Titanic, maybe quicker.

I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk into Kansas City and put up the worst football game of my existence. And I've always been this brash, arrogant kind of guy.

Ian Smith thought his Rhodesia would last 1,000 years: it lasted less than 15.

Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.

In Dune and Dune Messiah , he [Frank Herbert] was cautioning against pride and overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall.

Daniel Kahneman has argued that this tendency to overconfidence is particularly strong among investors. More than most other groups, investors tend to exaggerate their own skill and deny the role of chance. They overestimate their own knowledge, underestimate the risks involved, and exaggerate their ability to control events.