Definition of Underestimate

Underestimate

To set to/ low a value on; to estimate below the truth.

The act of underestimating; too low an estimate.

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Underestimate Quotations

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Tony Robbins

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
Bill Gates

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
Robert H. Schuller

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Wilma Rudolph

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
John Howard

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry B. Adams

I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me.
Erykah Badu

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.
Sonny Bono

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
Don DeLillo

You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
Jack Black

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
Barbara Corcoran

I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate.
Kathleen Turner

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.
Craig Bruce

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.
Leigh Steinberg

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
Timothy Geithner

Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.
Thaksin Shinawatra

We know we cannot underestimate the importance of emergency planning in our region, nor can we assume we'll have ample warning time. If an earthquake or terrorist attack hits, we won't necessarily have advance alerts or opportunities to double- and triple-check our plans.
Ellen Tauscher

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
Taylor Hackford

Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.
Oliver Stone

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
Warren Beatty

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.
Peter Maxwell Davies

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
Daniel Yergin

To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things.
Mary Austin

We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.
Zach Wamp

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Underestimate Translations

underestimate in Dutch is onderschatten, onderwaarderen
underestimate in French is minorer, sous-estimons, sous-estimez, sous-estimer
underestimate in Italian is sottovalutare
underestimate in Spanish is subestimar
underestimate in Swedish is underskatta

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