Wilson Mizner Quotes

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

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.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

Sometimes, you can get too big when you feel too good.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.