
Source: Perú Informa. Interview. https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/
A collection of quotes on the topic of underestimate, power, people, doing.
Source: Perú Informa. Interview. https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
“Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.”
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
“You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public”
“Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”
Rolling in the Deep, written by Adele and Paul Epworth
Song lyrics, 21 (2011)
"El mundo atribuye sus infortunios a las conspiraciones y maquinaciones de grandes malvados. Entiendo que se subestima la estupidez."
Breve diccionario del argentino exquisito, 1978.
§ 134
2010s, 2015, Laudato si' : Care for Our Common Home
Shot in the Dark, written by Phil Soussan, Jake E. Lee and Ozzy Osbourne.
Song lyrics, The Ultimate Sin (1986)
1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
1910s, The New Nationalism (1910)
Context: I believe in shaping the ends of government to protect property as well as human welfare. Normally, and in the long run, the ends are the same; but whenever the alternative must be faced, I am for men and not for property, as you were in the Civil War. I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends; but I rank dividends below human character. Again, I do not have any sympathy with the reformer who says he does not care for dividends. Of course, economic welfare is necessary, for a man must pull his own weight and be able to support his family. I know well that the reformers must not bring upon the people economic ruin, or the reforms themselves will go down in the ruin. But we must be ready to face temporary disaster, whether or not brought on by those who will war against us to the knife. Those who oppose reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.
Source: We'll go asleep, poems and ballads, "An innocent twist of fate" pg. 46
“I try not to underestimate my opponents, no matter how ridiculous their beards.”
Source: Death Bringer
“he tells me in a tone full of ice, 'underestimate who or what I care for.”
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.”
Source: Fang
“You're problem is, you underestimate me because I'm a woman.”
Source: Magic Burns
“Happens to me all the time… People are always underestimating my dumbness.”
Source: Motor Mouth
“There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), Chapter 4 “At the Court of Capa Barsavi” section 5 (p. 219)
“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
Source: Persuasion
LOVE (1972)
Variant: Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Man kann sich des Eindrucks nicht erwehren, daß die Menschen gemeinhin mit falschen Maßstäben messen, Macht, Erfolg und Reichtum für sich anstreben und bei anderen bewundern, die wahren Werte des Lebens aber unterschätzen.
Source: 1920s, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), Ch. 1, as translated by James Strachey, p.25
“Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor.”
Source: Little Brother (2008)
Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance
“Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.”
“Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.”
“It's always good to be underestimated.”
Source: Lost in Time
“Never underestimate yourself”
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
“Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.”
Source: Infamous
'Notes On Journalism' http://books.google.com/books?id=52L2eI9mwlcC&q="No+one+in+this+world+so+far+as+I+know+and+I+have+searched+the+record+for+years+and+employed+agents+to+help+me+has+ever+lost+money+by+underestimating+the+intelligence+of+the+great+masses+of+the+plain+people"&pg=PA28#v=onepage in the Chicago Tribune ( 19 September 1926 http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1926/09/19/page/87/article/notes-on-journalism)
The first sentence is often paraphrased as "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." (The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006, p. 512)
1920s
Source: Gist of Mencken
“A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.”
Source: The Piper's Son
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
“No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.”
Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah (2002), p. 216
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter VIII, Thorstein Veblen, p. 233
"Flooding and storms in UK are clear signs of climate change, says Lord Stern. Author of 2006 report says recent weather is part of international pattern and demonstrates urgent need to cut carbon emissions" http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/13/flooding-storms-uk-climate-change-lord-stern?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2, The Guardian (13 February 2014).
"Hayek and Mill", History of Political Economy (2008)
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
"Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 329-330
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)
Source: The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005), p. 67
Page 342
2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
Source: Public Finance - International Edition - Sixth Edition, Chapter 1, Introduction, p. 10
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 2, “Probability and Coincidence” (p. 35)
1960s, Review of Teilhard de Chardin's "The Phenomenon of Man", 1961
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (25 March 1898)
1890s
Source: Crisis Management: A Model For Managers (1993), p. 11
Bubble Toes.
Song lyrics, Brushfire Fairytales (2001)
“Never underestimate the power of a million amateurs with keys to the factory.”
Source: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006), Ch. 5, p. 58
Quoted in "the story of the second world war" - Page 167 - by henry steele commager
August 1941, from "The World at War" - Page 129 - by Mark Arnold-Forster - World War, 1939-1945 - 1981
Sourced Encyclopedia of the Third Reich Louis L. Snyder
During an episode of Question Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etg5lm92Io8, 18 September, 2008
Address of President Serzh Sargsyan to the Conference dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Woodrow Wilson’s Arbitral Award http://www.president.am/events/news/eng/?pn=14&id=1316 (November 23, 2010)
Source: On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991), p. 75
“You underestimate the ability of people to act like idiots.”
Source: Relatives (1973)., Chapter 8 (p. 128).
1920s, Ways to Peace (1926)
Address, Provincial Convention, July 16, 1952.
“Never underestimate the power of a good story.”
Step 3, p. 80
The Heart of Change, (2002)
“Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated – unfairly so, in my opinion.”
On avarice
"The world according to Conrad Black", 2007
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 9 (p. 124)
“Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 61
A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)
Said about U.S. President George W. Bush and quoted in the Swedish newspaper Expressen (November 2, 2004).
Special Order of the Day http://heritagecalling.com/2014/06/04/70-years-on-the-remains-of-operation-neptune/, 31 May 1944 by Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay KCB, KBE, MVO, Allied Naval Commander-in-Chief, Operation Neptune