What is the best advice you've ever received?

[MNDude]

Maybe it was some wise warning your dad once gave you, or maybe it was something useful your coach told you that still guides you today, but what would you consider that best advice you've ever received?

[gunsequalfreedom]

those not bored in meetings are the leaders setting direction and policy

Nah, they are just talking and wasting time that should be spent getting it done, most of the meetings anyhow.

[Osage Orange]

My dad...had some excellent advice.

But the best was this....

Son, you can always get more money. But, you can't get more time.

[pingman]

Better than a “What kinda handgun should I buy?” thread!

[Auntie Mame]

Perfection is the enemy of good enough.

[gitmo]

I’ve seen silver turn to dross
Seen the very best there ever was
And I’ll tell you it ain’t worth what it costs

[Glennb51]

Thank you. I plagarized them from “The Four Agreements” by don Miguel Ruiz.

I attempt to live my life by them.

[Gefn]

From mom: don’t enter into marriage thinking you can change a man. You can’t. All the things he does now that drive you crazy will just be magnified. You have to learn to live with them or decide if they will be deal breakers.

From dad after I graduated from college and got my first apt.

Me; I’m lonely

Dad: get a cat.

[phil1750]

Walk Fast.....
Met my first millionaire at age 19. I asked him for advice to achieve and he said just walk fast. When asked to explain he said,” Co-workers and bosses will see you as someone on a mission, somewhere to go, something to do. Additionally, you cannot walk fast and daydream. You brain also goes into a higher gear, you think.....Look around at the slouchers, they are walking slow, just meandering.

[Peter W. Kessler]

Effervescent if your fiddlestix.

Soupy Sales, 1966

[glock rocks]

Always carry a knife.

[Big Giant Head]

A guy I played music with, he was actually the band leader, i.e. “The So and So Band”, told me once he never liked people that would not take responsibility for their actions.

That is one tidbit that has stayed with me ever since. If I screw up, I tell my boss about it before he asks.

[Big Giant Head]

191 posts, and not ONE of the posts mentioned “preview before posting.”

[Mr. Lucky]

You shoulda been a Country & Western singer.

[thefactor]

“Nobody gives a f—k about your career, except you.”

[9YearLurker]

You’ve got a wise mom and dad.

[9YearLurker]

That was my parents’ philosophy as well.

It worked out nicely.

[N. Theknow]

Never aspire to be the indespensible man. The indespensible man is also the unpromotable man.

[donaldo]

Saying the word “No!” I’ve “respectfully” declined many an invitation to do this or that. Earlier in life I’d almost always say yes, not wanting to appear antisocial. I read Thoreau and he had a terrific impact on my view of things. In Walden he wrote of our frittering away of life by engaging in trivialities. He was absolutely right. More and more, life becomes a series of inane exertions if we don’t get a handle on things. Saying “no” can really help.

[mountainfolk]

The opposite of the advice I gave my son, many years ago. I advised him to marry a girl he was ambivalent about because of her excessive spending and expectations that he would provide the means for her to live the life style she had accustomed herself to.
Thank God that he did not heed my consul, which wasn't really more than a practical solution on my part that weighed the pros and cons and favored the girl. Much later he married the perfect mate for him and I think of that particular piece of advice I gave him as a reminder of possible parental fallibility. Hits and misses but always trying.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Despite my little quip in response to your reply you are actually correct so long as the kind of meetings we are talking about are ones that actually dig in and work a problem or move an organization towards accomplishment of a goal.

There is a saying though that it is hard to soar like an eagle if you are surrounded by turkeys. In that sense the meeting is only as good as the people that are in it - and leading it.