“Don't belittle anyone who you don't recognize. Don't be fooled by anybody who underrates you.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
In strategic decisions, I'd be really concerned about overconfidence. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
There's a lot of overconfidence about this bill. We're going to expose it. It will not pass. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than. — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“Overconfidence leads to carelessness, which leads just as surely to disaster.” — Sally MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“One of these days my overconfidence is going to get me killed . . . but not today.” — Bryan Schardein Copy Share Image
Doubt is often better than overconfidence, for it leads to inquiry, and inquiry leads to invention. — Hudson Maxim Copy Share Image
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall,… — Dan Quisenberry Copy Share Image
Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence. — David Wright Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
“When ever you think that you're the best in something you do,then there will be always someone will come to prove you… — Immanuel Mohan Copy Share Image
“You know, I can't stop thinking about you. Oh really? Why you so obsessed about me? Because..you're so full of shit yet… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“If you think you know everything, you will be proven time after time that you only know very little. The right amount… — JOHN TASKINSOY Copy Share Image
“A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge - that is, the more… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
“It is a skill in its own right, one that requires the highest degree of technical ability, personal honesty and sober thought.… — Ray Mears Copy Share Image
Companies selling a product play down its vulnerability and emphasize its robustness. But only after technology leaves the dock is it really… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence,… — Glenn R. Schiraldi Copy Share Image
“Auguste preferred women. He told me I would grow into it. I told him that he could get heirs and I would… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
... overconfidence in one's own ability is the root of much evil. Vanity, egoism, is the deadliest of all characteristics. This vanity,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“There are times in every commander's life when he must yield the stick of authority to a subordinate. Sometimes the reason is… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
“What you need to remember, with these guys, is that they don't know they're con men. They're wildly overconfident. Omnipotence, omniscience--that's part… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“I suspect that self-deception is similar to its cousins, overconfidence and optimism, and as with these other biases, it has both benefits… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field;… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The hedge fund known as "Long Term Capital Management" collapsed last fall through overconfidence in its highly leveraged methods, despite I.Q.'s of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“A woman will apply to an open job listing if and only if she thinks she meets all—that is, 100 freaking percent—of… — Jessica Bennett Copy Share Image
