Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering

John Gotti

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.

They have eight weeks off and are free to choose where they holiday. Our advice would have been to pick a more suitable destination.

They have been compared to a high-tech version of morning gossip or advice at the company water cooler, ... At least you knew your co-workers at the water cooler.

Russ Grimm

They don't take advice from me; I'm too old. They take coaching, that's it.

This is one area where taking advice can pay dividends: cheapest doesn't necessarily mean best.

Helen Zille

This is obviously a complex problem and we are taking advice from senior legal counsel.

Ken Salazar

This episode where the White House consulted with powerful interests in the Republican Party but not sufficiently with the Senate is troubling and disappointing, ... I renew my call that the President provide sufficient and necessary information about his nominee for the United States Supreme Court to the Senate so we can perform our Constitutional duty of advice and consent.

Thirty-four percent of people said the Internet played a crucial role, they got advice and support from other people. Thirty percent said they got information online to compare options.

Jim Gray

This is an appointment which is so right, and I just know that Gary will make an outstanding political editor. He's a razor sharp political journalist whose judgement and insights are utterly sure-footed, as demonstrated in his masterful handling of some of the most charged political stories of recent times - for example, our scoops on the Attorney-General's advice on Iraq, the Hutton and Butler Inquiries.

Jeff Cooper

It really helps us to build a counsel with them and give them advice and help keep them.

It's a great situation to come into. I have to keep making my adjustments in order to compete and help them win. That's what it's all about. I'm open to any advice and different input.

It is too easy to make commentary on my life from your luxury box.

It's turned out to be great. It's very interesting. We've helped all the venue teams, given them advice on how best to solve problems. It's really been a lot of fun.

It's not just a question of whether all the facts to one transaction were disclosed, but also whether a professional is being asked to give the advice within the right factual context.

Derrick Brooks

It's no secret. The spotlight is going to be on him. My advice is for him not to feel the pressure. He has 10 other guys he can lean on.

For every cruel deed done to others only the innocent remain strong.

They don't fully understand levels of mercury in fish and they're trying to provide advice to people based on shoddy science.

They do not have to take our advice but if something like this happens they look a bit foolish.

You don't sack someone and inform the king. Sacking is in the hands of the king on advice of course from the prime minister.

Sydney Smith

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.

Johnny Ball

There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.

The reliance on professional advice defense depends on a full disclosure of the relevant facts.

Alvin Toffler

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

You need to be very patient - it takes longer than somewhere else, ... If companies do their homework and get the appropriate professional advice and don't try to do it on the cheap, they can succeed.

This is how I got my career going, ... (But) my advice is to be in a suit and tie.

Sallust

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Roy Haynes

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

Susan Orlean

I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

They say that the best counsel is that of woman.