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Tag Name "Overestimate" (50)

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Success treads on the heels of every right effort and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
Samuel Smiles
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People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
David House
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One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Tim Ferriss
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
Ellen Glasgow
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We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.
Tony Robbins
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I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.
Garry Kasparov
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People tend to overestimate my character, I say quietly. They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.
Veronica Roth
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You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
George S. Patton
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Never mind what the 'people' think of you! They may overestimate or underestimate you! Until they discover your real worth, your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself. You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
William J. H. Boetcker
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken
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When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. And I think the same applies to change within an organization.
Harry West
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People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
Jack Welch
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.
John C. Maxwell
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The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything else the inception of modern mathematics and the system of mathematical analysis, which is its logical development, still constitutes the greatest technical advance in exact thinking.
John von Neumann
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God does not give us more than we can handle, I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
Julia Cameron
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One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.
Andrey Illarionov
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
Mario Puzo
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
Bill Gates
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One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
Mark Twain
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You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning beforehand. You really can't over-prepare in business!
Chris Corrigan
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Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt.
Paul Achleitner
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