Julius Caesar Quotes

Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence.

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 tempts many to their ruin.

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

I think it's dangerous to think that you're successful, because then you become complacent.

The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.

I'm the best. I should win everything.

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.

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.

It's not arrogance, it's just destiny.

Success usually breeds a degree of hubris.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

When I very first started out, I had that arrogance of youth.

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

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's not until I get into it that I realize what I've thrown myself into, and then I will do anything not to humiliate myself. And that, I think, is the secret to my 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.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

Nothing recedes like success.

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.

I've never failed at anything in my life.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.