Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
Alberto Salazar
I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.
Amy Chua
Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.
Andrew Lo
There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are not overconfident about their abilities; people with a fixed mindset are overconfident.
Carol S. Dweck
We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
Daniel Kahneman
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
No one likes someone who's really overconfident.
Debbie Millman
When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.
Gerard Pique
Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.
Harold Washington
In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.
Jimmy Iovine
Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.
Joe Lonsdale
What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.
Jorgen Vig Knudstorp
There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.
Kiele Sanchez
My belief is that we should never become overconfident.
Masayoshi Son
Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.
Masha Gessen
Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.
Nate Silver
Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
Neil Armstrong
The key is not being overconfident. You should not think that because I'm a top-ranked player, I will win this game. You have to be focused.
P. V. Sindhu
A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently, without considering that her abilities or qualifications would ever be questioned.
Rebecca Traister
Back during my VJ days, I was overconfident as I was on television and was earning money very early in life.
Rhea Chakraborty
I am not overconfident.
I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
