Quotes about overconfident (16 Quotes)


    I don't want to sound overconfident, but I think we have all the pieces right now and they are all starting to fit together at the right time. We just have to keep going. You can't look too far ahead. We just have to be careful, and do what we can to get there.


    You know his personality, I don't think so. I've been trying to build him up all the time. One thing he's not is an overconfident individual or player. I think I have more confidence in his ability than he does.


    If we didn't feel confident... we wouldn't be going through this. We have seven or eight full-time people on staff this year with no guaranteed revenue coming in. (But) I don't want to be so overconfident or arrogant that we think it's a done deal - we're going to have a really tough six months ahead of us.








    It was kind of a statement game. But, it's early. I mean, we can't get too overconfident because things can change in baseball in a hurry. You can turn around and lose three or four in a row just like we're winning three or four in a row.

    My confidence got beat up pretty badly, and you can't lead without confidence. You almost have to be overconfident to lead, but when my body broke down, the rest of me did, too . . .

    When things are going well it is all too easy to become overconfident and not give proper attention to one's duties. If this tendency is recognized early it may be corrected and no harm will be done.

    At the end of a long economic expansion, consumers tend to be overconfident relative to their spending raising false hopes about the ability of consumers to continue spending. At the beginning of a recovery, consumers remain in a funk even as they accelerate their pace of spending.




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