Hubris

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Definition of 'Hubris'

The characteristic of excessive confidence or arrogance, which leads a person to believe that he or she may do no wrong. The overwhelming pride caused by hubris is often considered a flaw in character. While these hubris feelings are often justified, they often cause irrational and harmful behavior.

Chief executive officers and very successful businessmen who are overcome with hubris tend to be difficult to work with in team settings.

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Investopedia explains 'Hubris'

Hubris may be developed after a person encounters a period of success. Corporate executives and traders overcome by hubris may become a liability for their firms. A manager might start making business decisions without fully thinking through the consequences, or a trader may begin taking on excessive risk. In many cases, people overcome by hubris will bring about their own downfall.
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  • The Best CEOs Listen To The Street

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental-analysis/09/ceos-ear-to-the-street.asp
    ... Because of hubris, some CEOs take an almost opposite tact as dictated by the Street
    in order to prove their independent decision-making skills. ...

  • Steve Jobs And The Apple Story

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental-analysis/12/steve-jobs-apple-story.asp
    ... The sheer hubris of the entrepreneurial spirit, the idea that you can do something
    bigger and better than it has ever been done before, always bears watching ...

  • A New World For Bond Investors - Investopedia.com

    http://financialedge.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0611/A-New-World-For-Bond-Investors.aspx
    ... With that sort of hubris in place and a system of banking regulators that saw no
    reason to actually do their jobs despite ridiculous loan products like "pick a ...

  • Can Apple Stay Fresh?

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2010/Can-Apple-Stay-Fresh-AAPL-QCOM-NOK-DIS-AMZN-GOOG-HPQ0526.aspx
    ... sanitize content on its apps. Other's have predicted that Apple's hubris
    will come back to haunt the company. (Discover some of the ...

  • Can An Apple Cure What Ails JC Penney?

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2011/Can-An-Apple-Cure-What-Ails-J.C.-Penney-AAPL-JCP-BBY-DELL-TGT-KSS-SHLD0615.aspx
    ... Of course, it wasn't always like this - at the time of the launch, it was seen as
    ridiculous, a sign of Steve Jobs' hubris and a mistake that would quickly be ...

  • The Five-High Short Stack

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/The-Five-High-Short-Stack-WY-DDS-MTH-USD-LAMR0611.aspx
    ... beyond such an event. Such hubris appears to echo the thinking of the builders
    of the Titanic - an "unsinkable" vessel. In other cases ...

  • It's Do-or-Die Time for NetFlix

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/moneyshow/ItsDo-or-DieTimeforNetFlix.aspx
    ... preposterous move. Could it be that NetFlix, emboldened by the stock’s easy
    triple over the past year, has let the hubris take over? That ...

  • Investors Could Reap Profits From Monsanto

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2010/Investors-Could-Reap-Profits-From-Monsanto-MON-DD-SYT-POT0412.aspx
    ... in the product. Corporate hubris is a tricky thing, and it is by no means
    exclusive to any sector of the market. What is encouraging ...

  • Adapt To A Bear Market

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/younginvestors/08/bear-market.asp
    ... The Snowball Effect As always happens near the peak of a bubble or bull market,
    confidence turned to hubris, and stock valuations got well above historical ...

  • Trading's 6 Biggest Losers

    http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/08/rogue-traders.asp
    ... and many other equally compelling tales. At the heart of all of these, however,
    is the old tale of hubris. When a trader begins to ...

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