Underestimating Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises… — Bill Gates
I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating. — George W. Bush
De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive… — Saul Bellow
The generals have a saying: "Rather than make the first move it is better to wait and see. Rather than advance an inch it is… — Laozi
There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent. — Laozi
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure. — Laozi
The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully. — Zhuge Liang
I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me. — Donna Shalala
He's a complete fighter. He has some flaws, of course, but he has a good stand up game, good takedowns and a good ground game.… — Lyoto Machida
Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton. — Newt Gingrich
I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have… — Carol Moseley Braun
I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy… — Juan Cole
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to… — J. Robbins
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character. — Theodore Roosevelt
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. — H. L. Mencken
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me… — H. L. Mencken
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations. — Jane Pauley
This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go… — Mark Zuckerberg

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