Lao Tzu Quotes

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.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

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.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

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.

Arrogance always destroys opportunity

Success has ruin'd many a man.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

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

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

Failure has gone to his head.

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

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

The greatest enemy a man can have is his prosperity.

I have always resented the way the other sultans and emirs of my time have become too caught up in glory, pride and wealth

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfortable that it's going to be a good story. Pride goeth before a fall. It's an element of a lot of big stories.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.