Warren Buffett Quotes

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.

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.

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

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

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

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

Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

After Stand By Me came out, people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces.

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

Pride comes before a fall - although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

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

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

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

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

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I was hot and I knew it and it went to my head.

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