Success Blindness Quotes

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

Over time, a successful company will acquire much in the way of resources and momentum, and these things often insulate it from reality once it has stopped being successful.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize it. That can be death.

It is possible to grow enormously successful and powerful in America without knowing that the world is a dangerous place.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.