“There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.”
Eric Hoffer
“I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we're dealing with, and that we're not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we're making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.”
Billy Wilder
“It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Most companies' tendency is to overestimate the skills they need.”
Dan Murphy
“...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.”
Mark Twain
“The agency didn't overestimate that, that was the bid.”
Cindi Laws
“Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.”
Brian Wansink
