An expression to describe an individual who craves power, who mistakenly interprets greater poweralways equates greater self-worth without realizing it is only true when the base is greater than 1, i.e., self-improvement is needed.
A: She thinks once she has "power" she will be a million bucks.
B: At her current speed of self-improvement? 1 to the power of infinity!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)