Effective Advice Quotes

Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

To make advice agreeable, try paradox or rhyme.

The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.

You can't have fifteen people coming together to give the president advice in a Cabinet session. They're all arguing with each other for their own interests and he gets confused. What he decides has to come to him in an orderly way.

The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what's the really worthwhile advice that a 21, 22 year old person will walk away from the speech and say, I can apply this maybe five years, 10 years later. How many speeches actually push the button like that, other than yours?

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

No advisor is ever listened to just because he insists on being heard.