Scott Adams

“Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.”

“The best things in life are silly.”

“It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.”

“If your goal is to lose 10 pounds, you may wake up each day with failure in mind because the goal is hard to reach, and you are progressing only by small amounts. It takes up all your willpower. I recommend that instead of a goal, you have a system.”

“The only risk of failure is promotion.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”

“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.”

“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.”

“Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.”

“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?”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”