Underestimating Quotes

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

American, Public, Nobody

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken

Money, Great, Lost

This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.
Mark Zuckerberg

Big, Rather, Cycle

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
Jane Pauley

Life, Result, Awful

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
Donna Shalala

Life, Whole, Spent

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
Lester B. Pearson

Change, Peace, Political

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.
Carol Moseley Braun

Challenge, Big, Whole

Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.
Simon Pegg

Giving, Down, Give

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.
Juan Cole

War, Thought, Before

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