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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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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But it clearly requires that Newton become the NFL star that the consensus of talent evaluators figure him to be and that he measure up to the hubris in the kinds of comments he made ahead of the NFL Scouting Combine and picked-up on by Dan Wetzel of Yahoo!
Beneath the hubris of policymakers and moneymen, though, some quietly wonder if there isn't more going on.
This leads to the final problem that has done the most to disappoint OLPC's fans: the hubris, arrogance and occasional self-righteousness of OLPC workers.
Whilst I believe that principle from the bottom of my heart, I have to admit I still harboured for many years a secret disdain for awards (and the self-congratulatory hubris that surrounds them).
Without emotional intelligence, hubris sets in, and a leader will overestimate his own ability and alienate others.
It's easy to weave the Titanic disaster into a seductive tale of hubris, social stratification and capitalist excess.
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