Achievers not afraid to say "I did it"

GM board member Steve Girsky says, "I made big changes." Cassius Clay says, "I was the best player in the tournament ... I did a lot." Both quotes picked from the July-Aug 2014 issue of HBR. But if you want an older example, read what the world's first software programmer Ada Lovelace said about herself in Walter Isaacson's book The Innovators.

Isn't proud declaration better than hypocritical humility?