Thucydides Quotes

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Everybody in the world knows how good I am.

Donald Trump is a man who likes to think he has few equals.

I don't want to be that guy that thinks he is a high draft pick and that he has it all.

I'm better than Jon Jones. I'm better than Sean Combs. I am even better than John Holmes.

It's not good to have a huge ego.

Anytime a guy asks to compete against you, they usually think they have the advantage.

I am the best there ever was!

It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.

Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

If I... if I competed in Bruno Sammartino's era, I'd have been champion for 20 years, too. No, I'd have been champion for 30 years. Because wrestling one night a month at Madison Square Garden is easy. You never see a Hulk Hogan wrestle TLC matches against a superstar like Ryback. Because he had it easy. I wrestle physically demanding matches on free television, week in and week out. So much that my one year equals 30 of theirs. And I have attained this success, not... not because of you. I am successful not because of you. I am successful in spite of you.

No one is ever going to be as good as I was

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

I am more scared now that I was at any point since I began trading, because I recognize how ephemeral success can be in this business. I know that to be successful, I have to be frightened. My biggest hits have always come after I have had a great period and I started to think that I knew something.

Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.

Recognize negativism and inferiority attitudes as enemies - do not try to dress them as your friends. you will be tempted to look upon negativism as prudence and inferiorities as humility. Strip off those false cloaks and see these attitudes in their nakedness - as enemies of you and of your possibilities.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.

The key to successful business is self belief and application.

The good is always the enemy of the best.

I have to tell you, Arty, a screw up this early in the proceedings doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. I hope you're as clever as you keep telling everyone you are." "I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.