Friedrich Hayek Quotes

I'm rarely wrong.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

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.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.

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

We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

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

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

Thinking you're a genius is death.