Famous Quotes & Sayings

Number one, long term, they will be a no-load buyer and a more cost-conscious investor and not lean so heavily on the advice of financial professionals. And two, it will force them to do a little self-educating, which is always a good thing. At the very least, if they are going to rely on someone else, they can ask intelligent questions.

Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to a fool

Mark Twain

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Bob Stoops

obtained professional advice to ensure that we followed applicable laws.

Pamela Anderson

never had any meetings. They never asked any advice, and then they touted to the press that they had this animal-welfare advisory committee. I felt like I was being used.

Diana Gabaldon

Nobody had ever told me how to do these things, ... I didn't want anyone giving me advice until I had it all figured out on my own.

David Gale

Get professional financial advice and get professional legal advice.

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Frequently, the people most ready and willing to offer you advice are the ones least qualified to be giving it.

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.

Friendship is the only cure for hatred, the only guarantee of peace.

Graeme Smith

I don't think he undermines his effectiveness but I think he puts him under a lot of pressure when it comes to decision making and maybe he doubts his own decisions sometimes because Shane is offering so much advice all the time. It's hard to sift through what is good and what is not good, at times.

Benjamin Franklin

If a Man casually exceeds, let him fast the next Meal, and all may be well again, provided it be not too often done; as if he exceed at Dinner, let him refrain a Supper, &c.

Henry David Thoreau

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

I have listened to the advice from people who are better than me while I've been here, people like Heather Schreiber. She was my mentor, and pushed me and pressed me with advice and through example.

I have learned that a smile is a better persuader than a fist, in the long run.

I find it hard to believe there's any confusion. This is a process public companies go through. You go to an independent third party and you rely on their advice and counsel in the best interests of shareholders.

Ben Roethlisberger

I feel that I'm not losing the game for our team. I'm trying to give us the best opportunity to win the football game. I did everything I could to lose the Jets game but we won. And the Patriots game, I didn't play well. I think that this year, I just come out and play smart football. I got some good advice the other day (from CBS Sports' Dan Dierdorf): Every drive that ends in a kick is a good drive.

I have been told that a young would-be composer wrote to Mozart asking advice as to how to compose a symphony. Mozart responded that a symphony was a complex and demanding form and that it would be better to start with something simpler. The young man protested, 'But Herr Mozart, you wrote symphonies when you were younger than I am now.' And Mozart replied, 'I never asked how.'

Tony McCoy

I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people around me all the time, and they have given me the right advice for my body.

Gray Davis

I don't have any specific advice for the congressman. What he should or shouldn't do are matters best left to him and his constituents,

I come back and still seek advice on my marriage and on anything else that's going on in my life,

I can give very good advice because people say, 'I like the way you are and the way you make life simple,' ... I don't make a complicated life. It's easy, simple to me. Number One, it's heath. Number Two, it's family. And the rest of it can be Three or Four or Five.

Jerry Yang

I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

Gordon Brown

I am delighted that Dr. Greenspan has agreed to be honorary adviser. His advice on issues relating to global economic change will be much appreciated.

I am just amazed at what Rees Jones has done with nature. His genius, along with the advice he gets from others, is one professional accomplishment. I think the Houston Golf Association is brilliant for hiring him, and we're proud to put our name on this course, to have a tournament on this course.

I am always asked, "Who was/is your mentor?" One person.... Howard Lorber. He has given me the advice I always value and enhanced my approach to business.

I bet there are a ton of qualified young whippersnappers who will be chomping at the bit to get it, ... My advice would be take their time to get the right one.

Ben Elton

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

C. S. Lewis

If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance.

Carnie Wilson

I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.

Al Franken

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Aristotle Onassis

Get a sun lamp to keep you looking as if you have just come back from somewhere expensive.