Quotes About Overconfidence

Arrogance, like anger, is often a fatal flaw.

Hubris clobbered by Nemesis

When I first came into the league, we went 13-3 with a first-round bye, and I said, 'OK, this is how the NFL goes. This is cake. I'll have a Super Bowl trip every couple of years.' That's what I thought.

A civilization can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn't know.

Arrogance is incurable.

there are four factors that create irrational market behavior: overconfidence, biased judgments, herd mentality, and loss aversion.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Su misma superioridad lo perdió

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

I was over-confident while growing up. I think when you look a certain way, you try and compensate by something else. I was always a strong child, was always confident, but looks never mattered to me.

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we actually do

than others at whatever we do for a living. Ninety-four percent of Swedes believe that their driving skills put them in the top 50 percent of Swedish drivers; 84 percent of Frenchmen feel that their lovemaking abilities put them in the top half of French lovers.

Ninety-four percent of Swedes believe that their driving skills put them in the top 50 percent of Swedish drivers;

investors are led to overestimate their chances of success.

We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we actually do, enough of that little bit to occasionally get into serious trouble.

Kahneman, Nobel laureate and one of the fathers of behavioral economics, calls overconfidence "the most significant of the cognitive biases.

Pride is a dangerous indulgence.

Pride goes before a fall.

He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career.

As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.