Overreaching Ambitions Quotes

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

You don't want to get too comfortable if you're winning and start trying to be a number 10.

There's nothing wrong with having goals, but obsessing over them is often counterproductive because, in reality, achieving a goal isn't always what it's cracked up to be.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, people think they're some kind of genius. So now we can move into all sorts of other businesses because the net bottom line is, it's because we're just geniuses. They become overconfident and expand too far.

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.

A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.

A lot of people make the mistake of setting the bar too high.

Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

We were trying to achieve miracles and reduce the world to what it cannot be.