The best piece of advice I’ve ever been given was, ‘Be in the business you’re in.’ Don’t just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you’re in.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
I don’t take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire – why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
What exists outside is a man’s concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
I back people who I think will be seeking help and advice. These are the best entrepreneurs.
I don’t want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they’re your mistakes.
I get advice, but the final decision about my life is one I always take alone.
I rarely need career advice because I don’t have a career. No, that’s not true. I can’t really go far away while my kids are living with me.
The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, ‘Take money out of the equation.’ And that’s actually when Vice started making lots of money. That’s when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can’t always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.
Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don’t know if I’m the one to give marital advice since I’ve only been married for a little over a year, but marriage is certainly easier if you are open, trusting and loving.
I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don’t ever grow up. Don’t become a bore. Don’t let The Man get to you.
My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused – I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong ‘outfit’ got compounded all that much.
The trick is to find the style that is right for you. When it comes to trying new clothes, my advice is not to take it too seriously – it’s all about having fun.
If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, ‘Tell the truth.’ If I got three more words, I’d add, ‘All the time.’
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
I always make my decisions together with my family, my father. Of course, I hear the advice of everyone who wishes me well, but the final decision is always mine, with my family.
I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.
What’s funny is that all the artists I’ve collaborated with, I get this feeling that they want me to win. They’re always asking my opinion, always giving me advice.
Some of the best advice I’ve had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: ‘Keep trying, don’t give up, don’t be discouraged, don’t pay attention to detractors.’ Everyone knows this.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There’s no choice in your heart and your soul – unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it’s pretty tough out there!
Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.
My advice on getting a raise is what everybody’s advice is: to become a confident negotiator; but that is so hard. My admiration for women who are good at that is unbridled. Women in general have a harder time talking about money with their bosses.
Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn’t have any money?
Some advice from a beginner: never judge your full potential based on your first run.
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: ‘Do the dishes while you’re cooking.’
One bit of advice I can give people is to remember that anything worthwhile takes a long time.
I don’t have advice for people on how to dress. People should dress based on what they find beautiful. My best advice: Keep your clothes clean.
But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything – your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.
The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.
My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
The best career advice I’ve gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward.
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they’re getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It’s a very filtered view of the world.
I keep learning from my mistakes, and I take advice from my seniors, and the aim is to be the best in the world across all formats.
In life, you either watch TV or you do TV. I told my daughters that the only way you’re going to make it in this business is to get in the game. That’s the biggest advice I can give them.
My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, ‘I’m never going to cut your wings, so don’t let anyone else do that to you.’ That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.
My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.
My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
In my opinion, theater shouldn’t give advice to citizens.
My biggest advice for high school girls is to not take yourself so seriously.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
Your director is your main support – actors don’t generally give each other advice on set, not in my experience.
Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
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.
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.
A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don’t have those, you don’t have love.
Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don’t try violence.
I’ll tell you one thing: Don’t ever give anybody your best advice, because they’re not going to follow it.
I’ve never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It’s all about where you breathe. That’s my claim to fame.
While we share the same set of values, we can – and do – have different business interests. Dad has been there to give me career advice along the way, but he has always let me call the play.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Be original. That’s my best advice. You’re going to find that there’s something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don’t skimp on the words. Work on the words.
