“Many receive advice, few profit by it.”

“I have known many people to ask for advice but very few who wanted it and none who followed it.”

John Steinbeck book The Short Reign of Pippin IV

“Best advice I've ever received: Finish.”

Peter Mayle (1939–2018) British writer

“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”

Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer

“There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

“The best advice I’ve ever received is, ‘No one else knows what they’re doing either.’”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

“A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.”

Smedley D. Butler (1881–1940) United States Marine Corps General, 2 time Medal of Honor recipient and activist

“People think they follow advice but they don't. Humans are only capable of receiving information. They create their own advice. If you seek to influence someone, don't waste time giving advice. You can change only what people know, not what they do.”

Scott Adams book God's Debris

“But what does it profit the men who are killed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children? What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits? Yes, and what does it profit the nation?”

Smedley D. Butler book War Is a Racket

“Q: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
JM: Never get into a situation you can’t get out of. I really have stuck to it, because it’s good advice for all walks of live.”

Johnny Marr (1963) musician