Oscar Hammerstein Quotes

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

Beware of being blinded by your own success.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

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

Thinking you're a genius is death.

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

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.

My biggest problem is overconfidence.

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

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.

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.

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

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

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

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

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

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

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.