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I began playing 11 years ago. I bought a guitar, taught myself a few chords and picked up the biggest Beatles chord book I could find. After I learned all of the basic chords, I started practicing scales and worked on my picking/strumming dexterity.
A few years ago, I took lessons, and I had learned a few bad habits that were somewhat difficult to correct. It took some time, but it wasn't too terrible in my case. If you have some natural music ability (sense of rythm, good pitch) I think you could probably teach yourself the basics pretty quickly. If you want to be a virtouso guitarist, then you may want to consider lessons from the get go.
In short, I'd try to learn three of four chords (G, C, D, E, A, maybe A minor, and E minor) so you can begin playing songs. The sooner you can play a few songs, the longer you'll want to play and it will be more likely that you'll want to practice. You can play a long with ton of music with only the G, C, and D chords.
I hope this helps
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