Quotes About Advice

that Greenspan opposed it, "so I didn't really pursue it.

We were also careful not to advise Lewis on the disclosures to his shareholders about Merrill's losses,

I wanted to involve as many of my colleagues as possible, to get both useful advice and greater buy-in.

offering advice to the administration and Congress when we thought we could be helpful.

He sought my views on a range of topics

At Greenspan's urging, we decided to wait before considering further action.

despite experts' warnings about the economic consequences. Likewise,

Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

And I have listened also, in my youth, And more than once or twice, To the trained speech, the excellent advice, The clear, dramatic statement of the sum, And, after it was dumb, Heard, like a spook, the curious echo come, The echo of unkempt and drawling mirth --The lounging mirth of cracker-barrel men, Snowed in by winter, spitting at the fire, And telling the disreputable truth With the sad eye that marks the perfect liar-- And, by that laughter, was set free again.

There are exceptions to all rules, but it seldom answers to follow the advice of an opponent.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.

Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife

Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Wise Men learn by other's harms; Fools by their own.

Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.

We may give Advice, but we cannot give Conduct.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

He that won't be counseled, can't be helped.

The cat in gloves catches no mice. Make hay while the sun shines.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken.