What’s the best bit of life advice/tip you’ve ever received?

UncleBuck · Aug 29, 2023

Retsamaes
To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late and to be late is unacceptable

The late Vince Lombardi lived by this principle and repeated it often, he did pretty well.

My best advice was from my mom when I went in the service, "end no life and start no life".
I repeated that to my kids going off to school.

Wryfox · Aug 29, 2023

Some people won't like you, many for no reason. Work for the people that love you and you'll never care about those that don't.

Most of the time you don’t need more information, you only need more courage.

You just might fail doing what you love, but you’ll for sure fail doing what you hate.

Not everyone you fight is your enemy, not everyone that helps you is your friend. Be careful.

Your true passion is not something you *want* to do every day, it’s something you *have* to do.

Time passes whether you stand still or move. Doing nothing is also a decision.

Life rewards action, not intelligence. Being smart doesn’t matter until you show what you can do with it.

The greater your success, the fewer people you can share it with that will understand. That's just life.

Your goal isn't perfection, it's progress. Show progress every day in some way. Work, family, faith, friends.

asrnj77 · Aug 29, 2023

When we were teenagers my friend’s dad told us
“if you’re going to break the law only break one at a time”

Archer · Aug 30, 2023

jsducote · Aug 30, 2023

If nobody has come back from the future to kill you, your mistakes probably aren't that bad.

Spruce · Aug 31, 2023

‘It’ll probably seem different after a good night’s sleep'.

spacemission · Aug 31, 2023

Be careful with the flanders and nuvolaris.

spacemission · Sep 17, 2023

Don't trust a guy that uses the word prejudice. He is the first to do it.

Syrte · Sep 17, 2023

Buster
Good guys finish last

Completely disagree. Sadly there are bad people who succeed, but I know very good people who succeed even in the corporate rat race, through their own goodness, talent, ability to manage others well and get the best out of them. Which then brings the question: who would you rather be?

Wisdom from parents and grand parents:
“Work”
“Say what’s on your mind”
“don’t break the law for small things, if you have to break the law let it be for something that’s really worth it” (from a grandfather that lived under nazi occupation)
“Don’t get worked up over things that don’t work, the general rule is that things won’t work until you make them work”.
“It’s only money; health and life are the things that really matter”
“No point worrying about something that can’t be undone”.

Archer · Sep 17, 2023

spacemission
Don't trust a guy that uses the word prejudice. He is the first to do it.

Okay, no longer trust you...

p4ul · Sep 18, 2023

Anyone starting out on a corporate career, read, remember but think twice before you quote :-

We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.

‘Think twice’, like measure twice cut once, is always good advice.

spacemission · Sep 18, 2023

Archer
Okay, no longer trust you...

Archer, you are a very good watchmaker.

If you ever move to europe let me know. We could build a nice horology project.

madjestikmoose · Sep 18, 2023

Be careful how you look at life, because that’s how it is.

Maganator · Sep 18, 2023

A few from my father that have always stuck with me:

Never judge a man's wealth by the car that he drives.
If you pay cheap, you'll pay twice.
Never argue with a women because even when they are wrong, they will never admit it.

spacemission · Sep 18, 2023

Maganator
A few from my father that have always stuck with me:

Never judge a man's wealth by the car that he drives.
If you pay cheap, you'll pay twice.
Never argue with a women because even when they are wrong, they will never admit it.

I know true assholes and wonderful people with bmw motorbikes. The same with porsche.

itsjustausername · Oct 6, 2023

Sh*t at work.

Why? Because if you spend 10 minutes per day on your BM, you'll have been literally paid for a full year of sh*t by the time you retire 😎

(10 minutes per day, 48 weeks a year, over a 40 year career = app 1600 hours, on par with an average working year in many countries)

CBM1590 · Oct 6, 2023

Wisdom from my father…”Show me a man who won’t take care of his family, and I’ll show you not much of a man.”

LesXL · Oct 6, 2023

My father ... "Don't do things people can point fingers at you, and say... It's him, it's his fault". In essence, be good with others.
And from both my parents, "I love you, say it while you can"

spacemission · Oct 9, 2023

Don't trust a friend that never critisizes you.

spacemission · Nov 25, 2024

Don't trust a predicador that likes the fauxtina of tudor watches and doesn't like omega's.