Underestimating Risk Quotes

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

When the enemy is right next door, no one from a distance has a right to dismiss the threat.

Nothing fails like success.

Don't be lulled into complacency.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

Hubris is interesting, because you get people who are often very clever, very powerful, have achieved great things, and then something goes wrong - they just don't know when to stop.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.