I am not overconfident.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

No one likes someone who's really overconfident.

My belief is that we should never become overconfident.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

When one is young, one can become distracted and overconfident.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.

I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Back during my VJ days, I was overconfident as I was on television and was earning money very early in life.

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I can't be anybody but me.

In the entertainment business, everybody is desperately insecure, and the guys in Silicon Valley seem to be slightly overconfident.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

The key is not being overconfident. You should not think that because I'm a top-ranked player, I will win this game. You have to be focused.

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.

Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.

There is a long history of research showing that people are overconfident about their abilities. But it turns out that people in general are not overconfident about their abilities; people with a fixed mindset are overconfident.

I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband was much more typical. He had a lot of anxiety; he didn't think he knew all the right choices. And, I was the one willing to put in the hours.

Being a great founder or early team member is a difficult dialectic - you have to be a bit overconfident, and a big ego isn't always a bad thing. To change the world requires pushing really, really hard and believing you and your team know something others don't.

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.

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