John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes

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

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

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

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

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.

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

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

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.

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

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

Failure has gone to his head.

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.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

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

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

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

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

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.

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

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

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

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.