Scott Adams Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Aim low, reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Business, Humorous

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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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• Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

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  Ideas, Design, Execution

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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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• Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

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  People, Stupidity, Mind

  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.164, 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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• I can't memorize names and shake hands at the same time.

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  Hands, Names, Shakes

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• Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

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  Ideas, World, Rewards

  Scott Adams (2013). “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life”, p.17, Penguin

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• Moslem: people who believe suicide is a good way to get laid.

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  Suicide, Believe, People

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• Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf.
  Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene?
  Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.

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  Lying, Golf, Science

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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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• Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

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  Needs, Needing Someone, Firsts

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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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• 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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• 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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• Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.

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  Stupid, Dumb, Enough

  "The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions".

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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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• 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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• The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day

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  Helping, Delusion, Humans

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The best things in life are silly.

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  Inspirational, Stupid, Silly

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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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• Everybody is somebody's else's weirdo

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  Dilbert, Weirdo

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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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• 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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