"Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way"
- Chris Lowe
About this Quote
In this quote, Chris Lowe is highlighting the unsafe mix of stupidity, conceit, and a big ego. He recommends that these traits can lead a person down a course of success, however it is not a sustainable or exceptional one. The implication is that people who possess these qualities might have the ability to attain short-term gains, however in the long run, their lack of intelligence and inflated sense of self will ultimately cause their downfall. Lowe's words function as a caution against the threats of overconfidence and the significance of humility and intelligence in attaining true success.
This quote is written / told by Chris Lowe somewhere between October 4, 1959 and today. He was a famous Musician from England.
The author also have 14 other quotes.
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"The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos"