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" I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else. "
Scott Adams
Pretty
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" My investments have been hurt. "
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" 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. "
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" 'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip. "
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" I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet. "
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" You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. "
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Never
Underestimate
Stupidity
" I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. "
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You
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" For most people, it's easy to be passionate about things that are working out, and that distorts our impression of the importance of passion. I've been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion. "
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" The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want. "
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" I'm primarily just an investor. "
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Primarily
Investor
" The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it. "
Scott Adams
Computer
Half
Time
" I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.' "
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Restaurant
Say
Sometimes
" There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives. "
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Few
High
Through
" I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable. "
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Three
Work
Rare
" Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. "
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Nothing
Like
Forgiveness
" Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company. "
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Company
Credibility
Enough
" I think if you talk to anybody who ever went from not having much to having enough to buy what they wanted, they're always happier. Now I get that whole '$75,000 a year is some kind of magic number,' but my experience is 'more is better, up to a point.' Then there's a point where it doesn't make any difference. "
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Better
You
Think
" I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information. "
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Love
Magazines
Information
" Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps. "
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People
Dreams
" 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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Numbers
Universe
System
" I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message. "
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Search
You
Her
" Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier. "
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Working
Home
Office
" 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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Story
Money
Boss
" My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right. "
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Life
Made
Old
" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "
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Yourself
Art
" Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time. "
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Time
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" The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing. "
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You
" We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. "
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Knowledge
" One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead. "
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Dead
Brain
" There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. "
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