De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.
I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.
Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.
A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.
No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
I am done underestimating [Donald] Trump and his appeal.
I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.
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.
Happens to me all the time. . . People are always underestimating my dumbness.
When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.
Underestimating one's enemy was a classic tactical mistake --- one that was usually born out of stupidity or arrogance or both. (Harry Smith)
This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
