Scott Adams Quotes

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

Safety and certainty in oil, lie in variety and variety alone.

If we intend to have the trade of the world, … we must be in a capacity of serving all markets and all humours.

With … corporations, investors can place bets on the success of many different companies, without having to play a central management role in any one of them.

Buying securities is usually easier than selling securities.

It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services or products, but it is quite another to take on responsibilities that are far from your primary job as Entrepreneur.

Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.

I'm going to retain a lot of Microsoft's stock.

Your goal as an entrepreneur is to understand not only what your business does but the clients that it serves. If you really have your pulse on their needs and wants, then your 'absolute' failures are always going to have limits.

What people don't know about me is that I'm a pretty good businesswoman. Yes, I do this little ol' game show, but I know the show isn't going to last forever, so I've gone into different ventures. But I don't want to sound like I'm bragging.

We think the ownership culture is very important, so we like to invest in businesses whose leaders are also owners.

We'll look after the people who create jobs and business and give them that opportunity to grow in the time ahead.

I don't get holiday, I'm self-employed. That's a really big risk for anyone in telly.

I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.

I have 20 restaurants. And if one doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Stocks actually can be a very good hedge against inflation, and short of hyperinflation, stocks will have the ability to increase their dividends to match the rise in prices.

Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie.

What we get to do at TaskRabbit is create jobs. I'm excited about the opportunity that we have to what I think of is creating everyday work for everyday people.

I think there are two challenges - and one challenge is how to diversify the workforce in the technology industry, and the other challenge is how to diversify the people who are starting companies.

I'm always investing and building things at the same time.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

It's always been my philosophy to keep a lot of balls in the air. With music, most things don't pan out, so you try to increase your odds by being involved with a million things at once.

If you fail to make a mark, you might not get good work later. So, it is important for every actor to have a plan B to bank on. Here, nothing lasts forever. That's why my husband pushes me to do different things in life.

I believe in always having a lot of irons in the fire.

Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.