Reed Hastings Quotes

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

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.

When as smart as you think you are is as wrong as you turn out to be, your life can fall out from under you.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

Thinking you're a genius is death.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

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

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.