Sentences with phrase «own arrogance»

«There is much less arrogance out there,» says Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist at Duke University and an early Qualtrics customer.

STEVE Carre has walked both sides of the business street - in big and small firms - and believes there's a touch of arrogance about the former's failure to recognise the value of the latter.

But arrogance was an advantage in Thursday night's setting.

You'll need to present your thoughts and ideas with a high degree of confidence, indicating your convictions, but any excessive degree of confidence could be mistaken for needless arrogance, which will compromise your perceived authority.

But he did reply, with a hint of arrogance, that he was using the method he'd always used.

But she hinted that arrogance may be part of it.

«A lack of eye contact implies a list of offenses: insincerity, disinterest, detachment, insecurity, shiftiness, and even arrogance.»

Empowered by his arrogance, he takes on the role of the Fantastic Four's archnemesis, casting a shadow over the super group with his genius intellect.

While charisma and passion can sometimes be associated with obnoxiousness or even arrogance, a level of humility is important to investors as well.

The Cut & Color Room doesn't split hairs: The snootiness and arrogance so prevalent across rival salons have no place here.

Against our own self - interest, we get bogged down by shyness, self - consciousness, cynicism, pride, competitiveness, jealousy, and arrogance.

While his perceived arrogance may have turned off some people, his self - determination and drive contributed to his success and influence in the music world.

With a lot of arrogance, too.

In fact, it's hard to see contempt for branding as anything other than arrogance or an allergy to accountability.

Every city has its own problems, its own stupidities and arrogance of power and dysfunctional mega-corporations, so each city will have its own surprise occupations, and they can all slowly build momentum.

Fortune speaks with ReD's Christian Madsbjerg about flawed business thinking, the arrogance of Silicon Valley, and why he prefers to hire anthropology majors at his consulting firm.

Arrogance causes leaders to lap up information that confirms their world view and marginalize news that contradicts that view.

That sense is what I refer to as the yin and yang of the entrepreneur: the perfect balance of arrogance and stupidity.

Critics argue that the avalanche of scooters is a product of Silicon Valley's arrogance.

Another crucial way a leader can withstand arrogance is to spend a significant amount of time with customers.

The reason success can lead to failure is that it often creates an intermediate result: arrogance.

«The lack of investment, the greed, incompetence, corruption, hypocrisy and downright arrogance of people who put their interests ahead of the public's,» writes O'Shea, have decimated the newspaper sector more than the Internet ever could have.

Tired of hate, brutality, arrogance, and polarization, people around the world increasingly identify such traditionally feminine traits as desirable in both male and female leaders.

In a way, my sense of alertness was a mirror for the paranoia and arrogance that weaves corruption so thoroughly into the logistics of people's daily lives.»

«We've had enough of the lies, the sanctimony, the arrogance, the hatred, the pettiness, the fake news,» Loesch said in the minute - long video, calling out «every lying member of the media,» «every Hollywood phony,» «the role model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents,» and «politicians who would rather let America burn than lose one ounce of their personal power.»

«I would like my legacy to be represented in the fact that no one inside of McDonough doubts that we are a premier school, and every day we wake up and behave that way, not with arrogance but with a focus on being the best.»

Do you have any concern that you as an organization, or the Democrats as a party, continue to have a problem with arrogance, with looking down on people elsewhere on the political spectrum

There's a fine line between pride, arrogance and false boasting, and entrepreneurs are blurring it all the time.

«Sometimes when we're working with Silicon Valley startups — particularly when they're well funded — the hubris and arrogance is difficult to get through,» he says.

But that humility masks a deeper arrogance.

But for its stomach - churning mix of earnest ambition, arrogance, hope, and delusion — along with a series of comic and tragic miscues — it's hard to top J.C. Penney.

Their weaknesses may vary, but there's typically a common characteristic not - great venture capitalists share: arrogance.

Fused with that arrogance is a frightening naivety.

Or «arrogance.»

There is an arrogance that lingers in business and possibly in our culture at large — the self - congratulations for running on a lack of sleep.

In other words, Magna appears to be maintaining the arrogance of the Stronach years while ditching Magna's founder's unwavering opposition to leveraging.

Some founders may be concerned with the intersection of confidence and arrogance.

In addition to pricing and control issues, some have criticized what they say is arrogance on Apple's part for making some content producers and entertainment outlets reluctant to deal with the company.

There was no arrogance to Lloyd.

Besides greed, nothing can cost an investor more than arrogance.

«I'm a little OK with arrogance,» says Tisch.

Few things kill motivation as quickly as a boss's arrogance.

I don't dislike arrogance.»

Murdoch may have claimed the ordeal left him humbled, but 2012 saw his arrogance continue unabated.

But RIM's downfall is the result of very human mistakes — complacency, hubris, arrogance — that the current crop of startups needs to avoid repeating in order to succeed.

All managers and leaders need to have confidence in their own ability; but when that confidence boils over into arrogance, problems can occur.

Earlier in this series, I've discussed the myth of Silicon Valley's meritocracy and the ignorance and arrogance of its gatekeepers.

There, former TD Bank chief economist Don Drummond departed from his usually affable demeanor to castigate those assembled for their arrogance.

The struggle for the quants, Ma suggests, is to lose the smugness and arrogance that too often accompany their analysis and to help find ways for those with and without advanced math degrees to better communicate.

There's a big difference between confidence and arrogance.