Richard Brookhiser Quotes

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The biggest victories can lead to the greatest foolishness.

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.

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

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

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

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

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 was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

Sometimes, you can get too big when you feel too good.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

When you are too confident, that's when you hurt yourself.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

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

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Pride went before, ambition follows him.

Thinking you're a genius is death.