Top 41 Underestimate Overestimate Quotes
#1. Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
Bill Gates
#2. We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.
Clay Shirky
#4. Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins
#5. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
Daniel Kahneman
#6. Here were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a dwarf.
R.A. Salvatore
#7. People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
Bill Gates
#8. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
Timothy Ferriss
#9. Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term ... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
Bill Maris
#10. A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
Mario Puzo
#11. I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.
Suzanne Collins
#12. (J)ust as we tend to underestimate the role of luck in life in general, we tend to overestimate it in games of chance.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#13. Experience taught then and teaches now that blacks should never underestimate the level of violence that could be brought to bear against them by white authority, and that they should never overestimate the prospects for receiving understanding and support from white people.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#14. He claimed that there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
Mario Puzo
#15. In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.
Marc Benioff
#16. Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.
Ryan Lilly
#17. Most people overestimate others' talents and underestimate their own.
Orrin Woodward
#18. However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones - only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.
Daniel Nettle
#19. 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
#20. Never underestimate yourself when you do what is right.
Never overestimate yourself when you do what is wrong.
Roy Bennett
#21. It is as much of a mistake to underestimate yourself as to overestimate yourself.
Christie Golden
#22. You shouldn't underestimate an enemy, but it is just as fatal to overestimate him.
George S. Patton
#23. We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.
John C. Maxwell
#24. Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself
Tanya Burr
#25. We often overestimate what we can do in a day, but underestimate what we can do in a year.
Glen Smith
#26. People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
David House
#27. We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates
#28. People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.
Steve Pavlina
#29. We underestimate God and we overestimate evil. We don't see what God is doing and conclude that he is doing nothing. We see everything that evil is doing and think it is in control of everyone.
Eugene H. Peterson
#30. Unfortunately, we generally find it difficult to assess very small probabilities. We typically overestimate them (thinking the events more likely than they are) and underestimate very high probabilities.
David J. Hand
#31. You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.
Chuck Knox
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Most people overestimate risk, failure and danger and underestimate the value of being curious.
Deepak Chopra
#35. Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
Nancy Pelosi
#36. To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a more pronounced lack of sensitivity in underestimating (ourselves and others) than in overestimating.
Eric Hoffer
#37. Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in two years, but we underestimate what we can accomplish in ten years.
Mark Batterson
#38. We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
Roy Amara
#39. You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
Bill Gates
#40. Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.
Wayne W. Dyer
#41. Most of us make two basic errors with respect to intelligence: 1. We underestimate our own brainpower. 2. We overestimate the other fellow's brainpower.
David J. Schwartz
