Erik Larson Quotes

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

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.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

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

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

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.

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

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.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

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

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

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

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

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.

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