Scott Adams Quotes

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well.

I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.

I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people to do things that maybe they thought weren't possible.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you're confident that you'll catch a bird flying by. It's an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn't come by, but a few times it does.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

If I had one piece of advice to tell an entrepreneur, I always say, 'You have to have emotional investment in what you're working on.' That's what we lacked at Odeo.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises

If you are passionate about entrepreneurship like I am, you too can instill this passion in your children.

I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.