B. C. Forbes Quotes

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

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

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

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

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

The minute you think, 'I have done it' or 'I know what is happening,' you will start to go down.

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

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.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens.

The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.

It would be really arrogant of us to not have any of the fears.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

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.

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

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

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

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.

I'm not great enough to be humble.