Peter Schiff Quotes

False confidence is false confidence.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

Confidence is inspiring. Yet so often misplaced. (Robert Thornhill)

You always think you're better than you are in the beginning.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ignorance and confidence is a lethal cocktail.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

If someone underestimates you because you are warm and approachable, then you have an advantage over them.

You always think you're ready earlier than you are.

I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

It is by no means necessary to understand things to speak confidently about them.

Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone

People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.

What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

The confident artist is a fool.

The worst thing is not being wrong, but being sure one is not wrong.

I was a pretty confident kid, even if it was all false bravado.

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

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.