Bruce Cameron Quotes

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

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

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

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

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

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

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

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.

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.

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.

Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.

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

Nothing fails like success.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

Nothing recedes like success.

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

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.