Success Bias Quotes

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

I would say don't take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We're very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, 'Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets - it works!'

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

If a woman is super-successful, she is called a psychopath.

Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.

If you are chauvinistic mind, you will not be able to take the fact there is a strong, successful girl.

Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.

When things go well, everyone talks well of you and vice versa. Unfortunately, football is like that.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

It is certain that success naturally confirms in us a favourable opinion of our own abilities. Scarce any man is willing to allot to accident, friendship, and a thousand causes, which concur in every event without human contrivance or interposition, the part which they may justly claim in his advancement. We rate ourselves by our fortune rather than our virtues, and exorbitant claims are quickly produced by imaginary merit.

Winning changes the perception of what you do, and whether it's a positive or a negative, even though it's the exact same thing.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.