Egos Quotations

Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

In my lifetime, I've discovered a great many incredibly talented individuals. Some have achieved stardom. Simultaneously, I've seen many dreams shattered, egos destroyed and lives changed forever. The end destination may well be fame and fortune, but the road to stardom is littered with broken hearts.

In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience.

In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.

I never wanted to work with celebrities. I have no interest. I don't really care about their egos and their publicists.

Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.

We don't have any egos on this team. I think that was what was really special about this club,

We don't have any egos on this team, ... Everybody got along with each other. . . . Ozzie will say whatever is on his mind and he keeps everybody loose.

We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.

We were a long shot a month ago and now I don't think anybody can look at us and say we don't deserve to be here. The team we have in there is incredible. It's probably the best group of guys I've ever played with as far as personality-wise, the way everyone gets along, the goals we all have. Everyone bought into what we want to do and there are no egos and that's really odd in pro sports.

There are no egos on this team. No problems. Everyone is happy when someone else does well.

We really had a commitment to the firefighters to finally get this movie right. Especially after September 11. We really wanted to put our best foot forward and kind of leave our egos at the door and really be what these guys are, which are a lot of selfless wonderful men and women that want to help,

The creation of a senate is in no way a move to improve legislative oversight. It has simply been created as an extension of presidential patronage, aimed at soothing bruised egos in the ruling party.

There are a lot of egos in the clubhouse. For us to be successful, we have to put those egos aside and become good teammates and play the game the way we grew up playing it, pull for each other and genuinely be happy for each other.

The only game we've got is the one in front of us. We've really come together and gelled. Everyone knows their role. There are no egos -- we just play. We have a lot of talent.

Like everyone's been saying, it was a wake-up call. They're playing more as a team now, and you can see it in practice, where before individual egos were getting in the way.

She had a flair for doing things in a very elegant way. At the same time, you felt like you were right there in her living room. She paid attention to people so that she was seeing to it everyone's little needs and egos were met.

One thing we don't have that other countries have is discipline, ... You have egos that get in the way, people who want to run certain legs, or who feel they should be on the team when they haven't proven themselves to the point where they're reliable enough to get the stick around.

No, ... even when you're making fun of people in this business, they want to take credit for it. That's how big the egos are.

Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better.

I wouldn't want it to be a demoralizing experience for the boys, because young men's egos are fragile. But given an opportunity to allow all the players to participate today, that would have been my goal. And I think that could have been better achieved had we played nine innings.

Bush's aides made the point that not everyone reads the Washington Post and the New York Times. Rather, the Bush people were like antimatter: rather than having the normal inclination to feed their egos by garnering attention, they had the opposite orientation and were nearly impervious to press criticism.

I feel wholeheartedly that our success was linked together in so many different ways. I think that all three of us, in a lot of ways, pushed aside our own egos and selfishness in order for the team to thrive.

I don't want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don't want people who take the focus away from the movie and the ideas behind the movie.

He gets those guys to subjugate their individual egos and blend them into one team ego. It's an ego of one.

He needs to be cognizant of congressional egos and their involvement in decisions going forward. He's got to make up 12-15 points to be effective. He can get there.

To endure in a volatile, unpredictable arena populated by egos the size of small planets is not an inconsiderable achievement,

He's going to bruise some egos and brush some people the wrong way. He has everywhere he's been.

There aren't a lot of egos on this team.

Joey's doing a nice job spreading the ball around. It's up to him how it goes. We don't have any egos at receiver. You can't have egos and win games. With all of us, everybody can't eat every game.

I think it's because we're a veteran team and we understand what we're trying to do at the end of the day, and that's win a championship. To win a championship you can't have any egos on this team.

It certainly is the perfect storm of aggravating or provoking congressional egos and the president getting his back up and saying the least diplomatic thing he could have said.

I think what makes this a good team is that the chemistry is great. Everybody shares the ball. Nobody cares how many shots they take. We make the extra pass. We don't have big egos on the team. That's the great thing. Everybody does their best to win the game.

I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard.

Part of our message to the players is putting individual egos aside, and playing for the team. At the end of the day, if you win something, it's because everybody was able to sacrifice.

I think most of the players who have jumped from playing to coaching have their egos in check. You played the game at a high level and that brings instant respect, but what you do to maintain that credibility is the key.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

We have a group of great guys, ... We don?t have any egos on this team. We don?t have any jerks on this team. We have a group of guys that makes it fun for everybody to come to work every day.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

We haven't peaked yet, because we're still making mistakes. We still have things to clean up. The thing about this team is everybody wants to keep on getting better. Nobody around here thinks they're playing their best football. We don't have egos like that. We're going to get back to practicing hard and go about the business of taking this next one like we've done the whole way: One game at a time.

We don't have any stars. We don't have a Pro Bowl player on defense, which I don't think is fair because we definitely have guys who play like it. There's no egos on our team. Everybody wants to play everybody.

We had an incredible staff, of some of the most talented in the business. Talent with egos that didn't get in the way. We all had the same goals.

When egos clash often between you and the school principal, it is not too wise to develop a mad crush on his attractive daughter. For this will certainly amount to adding gasoline to a raging inferno.

There are always some egos that consider themselves more important then the mission. But the organization needs to take a look at itself ... An organization that represents itself as a humanitarian effort in the world needs to be sensitive to how they treat their volunteers.

The players had bad personal relations, their egos led to this shameful end. My mistake was not throwing three or four of them off the team. They hate each other so much that they don't even look at each other. I've never seen such people before.

We've got to convince our egos and our minds that if we want to live happy lives, love is more important than anything else!

We want to win basketball games, and not let our egos get in the way. Everybody on this team has, at one point, been a star or a starter or a bigger part of their team. ... We have to understand that we are talking about wins, not who is going to have the points.

We have a chance to be pretty good. Many of our seniors need to check their egos at the door. If we do not rest on our previous year's laurels and come to work hard, we should be alright. How tough we are mentally is our biggest question on and off the field.

You had dozens of mutual funds with triple-digit returns in 1999, and that catapulted some managers into the stratosphere. But their egos and their ability didn't correlate that greatly.

I used all of my acting skills. At one point I let them think I had a poor hand. I knew if they smelled weakness, they would try to bluff me and I had "the nuts." The guys put all their chips in when I had the superior hand. Their egos got the best of them. It serves them right to get beaten by a woman.

These young, talented people are the essence of a true theater ensemble, willing to sublimate their egos to create a unified piece of theater.

The special thing about our team is everybody's able to put their egos aside and focus on the team.

See, I don't know nothing about singing. I never wanted to be a frontman. Frontmen had big egos and was always crazy and aggravating. I just never thought that was a good idea.

The most impressive thing to me is how the guys have jelled in such a short period of time. There are no egos on this team.

This appears to be about a clash of titanic egos and, at Oracle, there is only one ego that ultimately matters.

They told me and Jeff they want more corners to do what we did. They said they want more trainers to forget about their egos and to care more about their boxers. The fighter is not going to quit.

All of our egos were flushed down the toilet after that game. We were knocked down from riding that high horse.

There were egos to salve. Guys to pat on the back. Some guys to kick in the butt. I really didn't have to crack a whip a whole lot, but ?

At D.C. United, we have a way of doing things ... and people have to sublimate their egos and their selfish interests to the best interests of the group,

It's an honor to be able to train with them. We are all friends. There aren't a lot of egos on this team.

It's all about egos now. Who's going to quit? Who's going to give up? You hate to say the season's over for us, but now it's all about finishing strong and letting it carry over next year.

It's not that we're shocked because we're winning. It's a shock that we got in a hole like we did. We knew we had talent in this locker room and we knew what type of coach we had. It's just about everyone putting their egos aside and that's what we're doing.

It's his team and I love being a part of it. I do what I do, which is go out every night and try to do my best. If I'm not scoring I'm doing other things. There's no egos here. All sports are like that. He's the superstar and deservedly so.

Everybody can't have everything. If we don't look at the front of our jackets and don't let egos block the vision of our goal, we can get a lot done.

Egos seem to be a lot more frequent. I've been to loads of parties that were just crazy - whatever you would call Hollywood parties - and it's not like piles of cocaine on the tables and chicks naked, running around.

It just wasn't there tonight. (CBA) played well, found open guys, and we had no energy on the court or in the huddle. We'll go back to the drawing board and smooth our egos a little bit. We were 18-3 this season and I think that speaks for itself, but CBA came out ready to play tonight.

The council should continue to rotate the mayor's position. By rotating you keep the politics out, egos in check and everyone benefits from it.

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

I love playing those games. I think they make you better. It keeps young people's egos and dreams alive. I don't think there's any doubt that young people want to play the best.

I probably had more butterflies today than any playoff game. There was a tremendous amount of pride to walk into our clubhouse and see 30 guys with some pretty darn big egos and put them aside for this.

Clearly there are egos involved. Clearly (Guidant) couldn't have been happy when J&J lowered their bid, claiming there had been a material change.

He told us to check our egos at the door and just play ball, ... Coach subbed us in every five minutes - like a 'five in, five out' kind of thing - so everyone pretty much played the same amount.

He said a million times, 'Check the egos at the door.' Everyone did that. It was hard for everybody to do that, but that's what we knew we had to do as a team to win.

I can't think of many bands that can do that for five years without egos blowing up, but it's still working. We went about a year without seeing them (while touring with Cheap Trick), and we really missed them.

I can't count how many alter egos I've met. The only one I care about is the one that shows up on Sundays. That's the one we've had for 16 weeks. That's the guy we're hoping shows up for four more.

For the coach, I'm sure it's nice to coach when there's a lot less egos on the field.

The key problem here is, and continues to be, the inability of people to put aside egos and address this on a regional basis, not on a stovepipe basis.

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.

These guys have pushed their egos aside to be here, they've put their life on hold to play for their country. I think that says something about them all.