Patrick Collison Quotes

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

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.

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

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.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I think the industry, and the comics industry in particular, is littered with the bodies of writers who believed their own press. And you can see the moment they did, and then the work nosedives.

Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

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

I was loving being the champion, and I wasn't listening to my body. I almost felt like I was untouchable in a way - that I could just keep going and everything would be OK.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Don't be a Pollyanna!

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.