Scott Adams Quotes
"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."
- Scott Adams
(Related: People, Difference, Profit)
"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."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Religion, Dating, Nothing, Pursuit)
"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."
- Scott Adams
(Related: People)
"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Success, Successful, Failure, Goal)
"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Public, Stupidity)
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Nothing)
"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Problems)
"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Forgiveness, Nothing, Revenge)
"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Act, End, Kindness)
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Art, Creativity, Mistakes)
"The only risk of failure is promotion."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Failure, Promotion, Risk)
"The best things in life are silly."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Life, Silly)
"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Numbers, Universe)
"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Life, People, Fact)
"The longer you work here, diverse it gets."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Work)
"Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams."
- Scott Adams
"One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead."
- Scott Adams
"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Problems, Will)
"Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure."
- Scott Adams
(Related: People, Free will, Illusion, Pleasure)
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Cause, Company, Information, Problems)
"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Decision, Results, Tradition)
"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Work, Company, Credibility, Dumb)
"I get mail; therefore I am."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Mail)
"I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination."
- Scott Adams
"If a job's worth doing, it's too hard."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Job, Worth)
"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?"
- Scott Adams
(Related: Time, People, Questions)
"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Trouble, Unix)
"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."
- Scott Adams
(Related: Women, Car)