Overpromising Quotes

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.

The reason we avoid the word 'synergy' is because people generally claim more synergistic benefits than will come. Yes, it exists, but there are so many false promises.Berkshire is full of synergies - we don't avoid synergies, just claims of synergies.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn't deliver at all - it takes your money and keeps your pizza.

I'm always worried about overhype. I love underhype.

I hate hype.

You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon.

Most of the people we sign on as development agents commit to goals they don't believe are possible.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

Promises cost nothing. Say "no" to nobody.

I think I might have exaggerated some abilities in the past. Practical abilities for acting jobs you sometimes have on your CV - I have definitely exaggerated in meetings to get a job and then not been up to scratch on the day.

We shouldn't persuade people that we can simply conjure up the sun and the moon: at the most, we can deliver a telescope.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

Hype is a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing if you aren't prepared to back it up.

An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or sentimentality, sometimes imply that all of their students could one day produce worthwhile literature, rather than frankly acknowledging the troubling truth, anathema to a democratic society, that the great writer, like the contented worker, remains an erratic and anomalous event, immune to the methods of factory farming.

Europeans distrust a Europe that overpromises and underdelivers.

My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you really can't.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

A man who can refuse no favor to any man. He would recommend ten persons for one and the same place rather than say no to any one of them.

We typically don't talk about something until we are about to ship. Not just for AI, but for anything: the comparison is generally what we are shipping compared to what someone else is talking about that is going to happen sometime in the future. A lot of people sell futures, I guess, is the way to think about it.