Scott Adams Quotes

I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

Scott Adams

• Entrepreneur
• Seeds
• Defined
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• Cartoonist

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• For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

  

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• You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

  

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• I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

  

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• Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

  

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• I've always enjoyed shopping and loved fashion, but my interest as an entrepreneur was definitely more about the opportunities I saw to change the future of retail. My sister was a buyer in New York, and she knew my body and my style, and she could find me things I loved. I thought, 'What if everybody had access to this kind of experience?'

  

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• 'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

  

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• Life, especially the life of an early-stage entrepreneur, is full of gigantic ups and downs. Make sure you don't let yourself get too high or too low. It's a marathon, and you just have to keep your legs moving at a steady pace.

  

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• Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors.

  

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• I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.

  

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• It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

  

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• As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
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• To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There's a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it's better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.

  

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• There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

  

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• My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what's going on.

  

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• Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.

  

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• A lesson learned, both in the SEAL teams and as an entrepreneur, is that failure is sometimes a critical component of success.

  

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• As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

  

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• I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

  

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• When it comes to building your business and developing a powerful network, you'll want to develop a reputation as someone who highlights others. Not only does this give credit where credit is due, it also communicates that you're secure with your success and have the ability to promote others in your industry.

  

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• Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?

  

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• I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

  

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• I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Entrepreneur
  • Seeds
  • Defined