All Quotes by Scott Adams
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”
“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?”
“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”
“If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.”
“Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.”
“The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.”
“The only risk of failure is promotion.”
“In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.”
“The best things in life are silly.”
“If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?”
“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.”
“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”
“It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.”
“Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.”
“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.”