quotations about advice
If individuals hesitate to ask for advice out of a worry others will perceive them as less competent, they lose the ability to learn through advice -- and organizations will fail to take advantage of one of the central reasons for putting people together in a workplace.
STEVE KELMAN
"Don't hesitate to ask for advice!", The Lectern, February 29, 2016
We advise others better than ourselves.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
The race to provide robo-advice is accelerating. Fund managers, banks, brokers and financial advisers are all adapting their business models to fend off the competitive threat of automated online investment services. Although still a fledgling industry, robo-advice has rapidly become a priority for some of the world's largest asset managers. They recognise the potential for low-cost online advice to attract new audiences, particularly the young.
CHRIS FLOOD
"Race to provide robo-advice hots up", Financial Times, March 6, 2016
A sort of itch for settling other people's destinies, and so gaining a title to their curses for our pragmatical and fatal interference, is the commonest of all forms of sanctioned lunacy.
CHARLES READE
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
Another problem with advice is that the advisor seldom understands the full implications of the problem. When people share their concerns with us, they often display only the "tip of the iceberg." The advisor is unaware of the complexities, feelings, and the many other factors that lie hidden beneath the surface.
ROBERT BOLTON
People Skills
Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
Good advice is like gold. Hopefully someday we'll be confident of finding it, in a transparent way that suits all our needs.
TOM HARTMANN
"Top 5 reasons we avoid advice", New Zealand Herald, February 21, 2016
Whatever advice you give, be brief.
HORACE
Art of Poetry
Advice is not often asked of seeming idlers: it is most common to interrupt the busy by such requests; and naturally enough, since those who attend most carefully to their own concerns, are generally thought best qualified, by experience, to judge for others.
ANONYMOUS
Southern Literary Messenger, vol. 4
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
AESCHYLUS
Prometheus Bound
And certain it is, that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another, is drier and purer, than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment; which is ever infused, and drenched, in his affections and customs.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Friendship", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Good advice is the second mother to a child.
TUUMYERIDAM DONALD
"Tension in Chiana-Paga NDC over primary holdup", Ghana Web, February 23, 2016