Scott Adams Quotes

• When you hire that first person, then you’re a boss. You’ve got performance reviews. You’ve got complaints about not making enough money. You’ve got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

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• You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner. You don’t punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don’t argue when a women tells you she’s only making 80 cents to your dollar. It’s the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

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• I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer’s cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

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• There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

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• 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.

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

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  Tags in Office, Credibility, Consultants, Company

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

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• And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

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• There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives

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• One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

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• The best things in life are silly.

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• The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

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• Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

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• Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

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• If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.

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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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• 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.

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• The longer you work here, diverse it gets.

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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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  Tags in Willingness, Irrational, Humans, Better

Scott Adams (74)

Birth:	8th June, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Cartoonist, Writer

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