Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
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Scott Adams Quotes
- 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.
- The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.
- Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
- There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
- Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
- 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 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.
- The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
- Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
- Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
- Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- I spend a lot of time reading.
- We pardon to the extent that we love.
- Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.