Advisors Quotes

• As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

  Allen West

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Encouraging, Education, Money

  Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth

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• So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Long, Length, My Friends

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). “Prefaces and prologues to famous books”

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• Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Trying, Actors, Documentaries

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Rattle Interview, www.rattle.com. May 3, 2016.

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• I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.

  Bob Woodward

  Character, Thinking, Giving

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• We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

  Neil Sheehan

  Country, War, Winning

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• Its been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

  Julie Nixon Eisenhower

  World, Strange, Planning

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• When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

  David Selby

  College, Class, Theater

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• I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

  Merton Miller

  Directors, Boards, Should

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• My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

  Edwin Moses

  Mother, Father, School

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.

  John Podesta

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Missing, President, Looks

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

  Andy Dick

  Spiritual, Talking, Rehab

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

  Charlton Heston

  Fire, Government, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Love, Wise, Independent

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• He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

  Pierre Corneille

  Play, Ambassadors

  "Nicomède". Book by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iii, 1651.

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• I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.

  Paul Putner

  Jobs, School, Careers

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• Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Friendship, Knowing Nothing, Anxiety

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• [There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Interesting, Boards, News

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Know what you own, and know why you own it.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Intelligent, Investing

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• Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

  Paul Samuelson

  Money, Vegas, Saving

  "Paul Samuelson's Words of Wisdom" by Larry Swedroe, www.cbsnews.com. December 17, 2009.

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• The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Respect, Integrity, Self Esteem

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Money, Insightful, Saving

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• I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.

  Eugene Fama

  Astrology, Bad Advice, Investing

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• No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

  Booker T. Washington

  Food, Men, Thinking

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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