Lapo Elkann Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.

Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'

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

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.

A lot of people hate winners.

The more you win, the less people like you.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

Pride goeth before the fall....but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion...Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure...Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.

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

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

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.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.

Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.