“It is hard to see anything meaningful emerging. The talks weren't a step forward or backwards. The administration overestimated their power and logic and underestimated the problems and they are panicking.”
George Perkovich
“It would be hard to overestimate this as a first step for China. If China can transform its big banks, this will have enormous implications for China's long-term economic growth.”
Nicholas Lardy
“It's hard to overestimate how significant these two cases are together,”
James Bopp
“It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“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
“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
“...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.”
Mark Twain
