Zig Ziglar Quotes

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

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

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.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

The worst thing you could ever get is people who think they know everything.

DuPont had the idea there was nobody in the universe who could tell them anything.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

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

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

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

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

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

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.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

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.

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

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

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

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

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.

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.