Henry Blodget Quotes

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

I'm the best. I should win everything.

You don't want a team going around the league just thinking they can beat you by 30, 40 points every time that you play them.

Arrogance is a weird emotion to take on, but you have to do it.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

I've definitely met nightmare Hollywood types who think they're getting twenty million dollars a picture when they're not. But they act like it. And they just insult everybody.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

Two sentiments inherent in power never fail to produce this moral corruption; they are: contempt for the masses and the overestimation of one's own merits.

He spoils his undoubted talents by his excessive assurance, his contempt for other people's point of view, and his attitude of a king in exile.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

In international affairs, you pay for cockiness.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

I'm not a high jumper, but you don't see guys intimidating me or posting me up.

I'm an alpha male.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.