Vann was cocky about his ability to handle the job, and his cockiness did not put Porter off.
I am just spiritually weary of the ubiquitous cockiness of economists, though Piketty sounds as though he's less guilty of this than most of the pundits in the daily papers.
The main causes, say the Euro-types, were Irish cockiness in an economic boom, ingratitude after decades of EU subsidies, a hopeless Yes campaign and, most important, ignorance of the treaty, made worse by the No campaign's lies.
His instinctive cockiness also got him into trouble with developing countries.
Its workaday incarnation, cockiness, is causing trouble for Bill Ackman, a modern-day hedge-fund titan.
Mr Breivik remained impassive throughout, staring at a spot on the desk in front of him as relatives of the dead wept in the rows of seats behind him.Mr Breivik maintained his cockiness when asked to enter a plea.
A shared profit-pool may also harm the business: leather-jacketed creatives who sneer at a sister company exhibit the sort of cockiness that produces great advertising.Which leads to performance-based fees.
His most noticeable flaw is his arrogance, which he has tried to keep in check, but which slipped out in November when he remarked: "I am the government".In that case, his cockiness was accurate.
Staunchly pro-market, Mr Shiozaki thinks that even Mr Koizumi's radical reformer, Heizo Takenaka, who is considered by Mr Abe to be too obviously associated with the Koizumi reforms, grew soft; he is loathed by bureaucrats for his cockiness.
Eventually, though, confidence becomes cockiness.
The same technique, the same cockiness going forward.
