What piece of advice has always stuck with you? - Page 2

"Got to back up two steps to catch up to ourselves."

When I was 18 I worked with a 72 year old building concrete waterfalls. Often times we would get to a point in our work where we realized we needed to go back and do or redo something to continue on with the project.

Karma's a ***** don't f$#$ with her
Not preparing on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine.
Measure twice cut once
Do only what your career can handle

not my problem.

When I was also a teenager:

"Now I know you are pretty smart, and that you are young, and happy, with a great very hot girlfriend, got a decent car, and I have three pieces of advice for you. One, buy don't rent. You are handy enough where you if you don't buy a house at a young age you are throwing money away. Two, join the fire department. In ten years you won't even be 30 years old and you will have a vested retirement account. Three. And now I know you may not agree with this one at this time, but I promise you in the future you will agree with me......Three, dump your super hot girlfriend that is awesome, that you have been with for two years, because you are missing out on the only years of your life to date* high school girls."

*this quote may have been edited for the public.

Always look up the value of something before you start to scrap it.

Two things:

1. "Compliments are a dime a dozen. I only accept cash." - Roy Garber

2. "Don't sell a car until you've lost all emotion for it. As long as you have feelings, it's a keeper."- A friend of mine, who drives a 1994 Oldsmobile with 300k miles. Shocker, I know

My dad died suddenly when i was young so some of the old timers mentored me till i was a little further along. Some of the things they said stayed with me all these years.

1: It's later than you think son.

2: The way to hell is paved with good intentions.

3: Never argue with an idiot .... it's a sin.

4: There are three kinds of people: The Haves ...The Have Nots ... and the Have a little want more.

5: Most people need to be told where to go and what to do.

6: It takes three key things for every undertaking to succeed. They are Money ,Management, and Manpower.

7: Listen to your heart.

A wise scrap metal buyer told me this. Buy it for what it is, not what it can be. This advice helped me a lot. If you see dirty aluminum that you can work on and make it clean aluminum, still buy it for what it is at the time, dirty aluminum.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the worst speech you will every regret, and never remember.

It read it on a menu at some hole in the wall restaurant around 15 years ago. Stuck with me, not always in action, and found it to be very true.

Look for horses, not for zebras.

Don't know where I heard it, but it has saved me wasted time.

Originally Posted by t00nces2

[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=3]Look for horses, not for zebras.

I use this with my new medics when checking in patients. "horses"are your run of the mill illinesses and "zebras" are your unique,rare, uncommon stuff. Sometime people get tunnel vision looking for that one crazy thing and miss what is really going on.

One I follow to this day Respect is earned not given along with Guard your reputation with your life as a good reputation will bless you all of your days.

Originally Posted by Hypoman

Lesson: When a client asks you if you want anything up front, take it. At least get your expenses paid. Then collect your profits after your done.

This is how I recommend ordering anything. If I need to special order a computer that I will buy for $125, and sell for $225, I get the 125 to order it. You get two advantages- the buyer is committed to buying, and your bank account balance won't decrease.

One that I just remembered:

"Some things that are free are overpriced"

That's definitely true.

Life is a cruel teacher.
She gives the test first, and teaches the lesson afterward.
And then she kills all her pupils.

The one I try and live by is:

Conduct yourself like someone is watching you, even if no one is.