self-confident

It takes an unusually self-aware, self-confident and self-assured management team to recognize (let alone resist) this inexorable pressure.

But it will help you get in grips with the language of your choice and feel more comfortable and self-confident.

Maybe interviewees should be more confident, but maybe interviewers should be a little less self-confident.

What's arrogant and obnoxious to one person may seem self-confident and assertive to another.

This is a self-fulfilling prophecy in a society with too-free capitalism and non-self-confident citizens.

There's just something so refreshing about how they carry themselves: friendly, humble, utterly proud and self-confident, and without ego.

This will encourage only the most self-centered, and unrealistically self-confident people to stay.

The more likely scenario is that she reacts like the majority of women (and men) who aren't 100% self-confident, and starts a huge fight.

I personally also were always very self-confident, don't know why, just knew everything would turn out good on the end.

In that sense, it is an integral part of self-confident action.

I wish I had been so self-confident (not that being confirmed hurt me).

When I was running my first company, I was energetic and blissfully self-confident.

If it was more formalized I'd go as far as to get a "confidence quotient" for a person as self-critical and self-confident people can be fantastic engineers or horrible engineers.

It seems the likely outcome is scaring away the "shy but potentially good" candidates like the guy in your example, while favouring self-confident types who are able to talk up their skills and blag their way through.

This article is a) something he wrote by himself, not in response to being called names b) self-confident and abrasive in a way that I think it is fair to describe as "arrogant" c) wrong, in a way that seems to reflect not understanding polymorphism - particularly given his replies in the HN discussion of that piece.

A-la those uneducated, ignorant, but cook-sure and self-confident lower-class revolutionaries in Russia hundred years ago who were unable to grasp that "evolved [social] system" has some subtle "laws, forces and reasons" behind it and that uncomprehensive, even unreadable philosophy or a naive, oversimplified model [of economics] is much worse than no philosophy or model whatsoever.