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• Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

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  Life, Food, Men

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

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  Success, Risk, Quality

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• When did ignorance become a point of view?

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  Ignorance, Views, Doubt

  Scott Adams (2012). “When Did Ignorance Become a Point of View: A Dilbert Book”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.

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  Jobs, People, Empowering

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• If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.

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  Home, Creativity, Mean

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• Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.

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  Taken, Political, Remember

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• Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

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  Believe, Political, Insanity

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• Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.

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  Sight, Likes, Plain Sight

  Scott Adams (2013). “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”, p.16, Penguin

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• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

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  Funny, Smart, Stupid

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• The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.

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  Running, Loss, Long

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• Everybody is somebody's else's weirdo

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  Dilbert, Weirdo

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• People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

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  People, Hatred, Sides

  "Fictional character: Dilbert". Daily Dilbert, March 26, 2005.

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• Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

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  Hard Work, People, Credit

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• The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

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  Hard Work, Sacrifice, Want

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• Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

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  People, Path, Free Will

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• Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

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  Jobs, Food, Yogurt

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.222, Penguin

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• In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

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  Death, Suicide, Hard Work

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• The best things in life are silly.

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  Inspirational, Stupid, Silly

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• I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.

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  Thinking, Voice, Long

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• Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

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  Dating, Religion, Principles

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• Caring about the quality of your work causes stress. Stress can kill you. Maintain good health by remembering that the stockholders are complete strangers who have never done anything for you.

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  Stress, Caring, Quality

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• Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

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  Strong, Issues, Opinion

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.131, Penguin

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• Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

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  Believe, People, Normal

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

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  Life, Wisdom, Keys

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• I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

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  Aggravation, Hallucinations, Dilbert

  Scott Adams (2012). “Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-com Bubble: 1998 TO 2000”, p.187, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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