The greed and hubris displayed on these pages had a profound impact on our economic history.
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The one accusation that likely rang most true was that financial types have long acted with arrogance and hubris.
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There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it.
When businesses misbehave competitors react rapidly, taking advantage of one another's errors and hubris and stepping in on behalf of consumer welfare.
Apart from the debacle of health-care reform in 1993, a failure of presidential inexperience and hubris, the Clinton administrations have rarely stumbled.
Corporate crime at the C-level is an act of opportunity and hubris.
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People Like Ms. Rinehart are using that fact to create serfs and we all applaud her gluttony and hubris as some sort of superiority.
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And in this book an opportunity is missed to examine broader notions: the changing bonds between man and sea, and the hubris of high-tech boats and aggressive, professional crews out to conquer.
For al Qaeda, its own fantasies and unbridled hubris coupled with its self-proclaimed, divinely ordained mission strengthen internal morale, resilience, and implacability in the face of overwhelming odds.
The idealism, ambition, self-assurance and total hubris at the heart of this salmon escapade are all hallmarks of the Chouinard executive style.
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Willy's shortcomings appear to be caused by a mix of hubris and self-delusion.
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Unfortunately, hubris and nationalism among some Chinese and unnecessary fear of decline among some Americans make it difficult to assure this future.
In reality, the only lesson to be drawn from this episode is that academic economics, like many social sciences, is grounded in hubris and pseudo-precision.
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"It was engaging in hubris and that brings arrogance, " he said.
But by the dramatic conclusion, it's clear that Odets' script was informed both by sensational tabloid headlines and the tragic hubris found in great Russian literature.
The incident raises questions about his future, according to William Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street.
There are measures we can take to stop this grim scenario playing out -- as long as we can shake off our hubris and implement them.
It seems that business schools, or at least the deans and directors who run them, are human and subject to hubris just like the rest of us.
Mr Clinton's health-care plan was a prime example of trying, with maximum hubris and a tangle of competing working groups, to force legislation through the teeth of Congress.
It's a world much like our own full of greed, uncertainty, tension, dishonesty, hubris and quiet moments of doubt but The Arcade Fire still restlessly seeks deliverance.
And then there is Vivendi, a sewerage-to-films conglomerate that Jean-Marie Messier, its French boss, ran into the ground through a combination (familiar to Americans) of hubris and creative accounting.
The villain is your own hubris and pride.
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The danger lies not in a particular technology but in how it might allow us to indulge our hubris and pretend that we and our families are not subject to the relentless march of time.
It was a stunning statement filled with hubris, and very much the Obama we have come to know.
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The Petraeus story is one we all know: temptation, hubris, and human weakness.
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But generations change, power often creates hubris, and appetites sometimes grow with eating.
To imagine that by such shallow and self-gratifying efforts we can eliminate human poverty is shameless hubris, not charity and grace.
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Same answer as you raised, and I underlined: hubris.
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It seems that even intelligent Greeks failed to realise this was a secular not a religious ritual and interpreted it as hubris: treating a mortal man as if he were a god.
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