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" It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation. "
Scott Adams
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" Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have. Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal. "
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" Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. "
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" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "
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" People vote based on emotion. Period. "
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" Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. "
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" One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special. "
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" If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game. "
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" Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. "
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" The longer you work here, diverse it gets. "
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" Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The only risk of failure is promotion. "
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" Psychology is the only necessary skill for running for president. Trump knows psychology. "
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" My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right. "
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" If you see voters as rational, you'll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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" I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success. "
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" I'm primarily just an investor. "
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" You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.' "
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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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" Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom. "
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" 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. "
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" Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems. "
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