Scott Adams Quotes

I found Hollywood pretty bruising and uncreative. The executives are all in thrall to the boss, and spend their times double-guessing him or her, and trying to remember what he/she said and then applying them to the script, whether it was useful or not. They're all in fear for their jobs.

I probably wore out my VHS copy of 'Office Space.'

'9 to 5 the Musical' is perfect for anyone that's ever wanted to string up their boss, which is almost all of us.

I understand that bureaucracy, hierarchy and managing politics is not easy.

Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."

An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).

You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

Nobody in show business can possibly get away with making fun of their boss.

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.

I'm like a Dilbert cartoon.

In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.

I think we've all worked with that person at the office who takes themselves and their job so seriously.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

I don't get emails from my corporate overlords.

If I had an office job, I'd probably be doing the exact same thing I'm doing on television: hanging out by the water cooler and talking to co-workers about their relationships.

You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.