Since it’s Father’s Day, I’m going to quote from a June 15, 2018 article at Inc. by Christina DesMarais titled 28 successful executives share the best advice they received from their dads. Those fathers said:
1] Surround yourself with great people.
2] Take things one step at a time and everything else will fall
into place.
3] We’re the average of the people we spend time with.
4] Your name is all you have, so protect it.
5] You’ll be happier professionally if you love life.
6] Every stranger can teach you something.
7] Character counts.
8] Always do your best.
9] Be grateful and humble in whatever role you play.
10] Wherever you go in life, there you are.
11] Everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time, just like
you do.
12] Leave it better than you found it.
13] Kindness and generosity go a long way.
14] Think big, act with humility and give it everything you
have.
15] Break up tense situations by being playful.
16] Business is a team sport and every employee is important to
the success of a company.
17] Always shine your shoes.
18] Make sure every note counts.
19] Stay focused, determined and complete things.
20] Attitude is everything.
21] Be generous.
22] Always try to approach conversations with the end goal in
mind.
23] Respect others.
24] Never give up.
25] Be industrious in everything you do.
26] No one will do the work for you.
27] Keep a healthy balance.
28] Learn to sell what you love.
For Table Topics, the impromptu speaking portion of a
Toastmasters club meeting, you could ask someone to elaborate on one of those
pieces of advice.
I also found an August 16, 2017 press release article at the
Skipton Building Society by Stacey Stothard titled The UK’s top wise words of
wisdom revealed. It had another 50 from both parents:
1) Always try your best.
2) If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.
3) Get an education – no one can take that away from you.
4) Never spend money you don’t have.
5) If you don’t ask, you don’t get
6) Eat with your mouth closed.
7) Put money aside for a rainy day.
8) Never take sweets from strangers.
9) Do your best – nothing else matters.
10) Keep your elbows off the table.
11) Never swim on a full stomach.
12) Treat people with respect.
13) There’s no such word as can’t.
14) You never get something for nothing.
15) Don’t put shoes on the table.
16) SMILE
17) Practice makes perfect.
18) Look after your pennies and the pounds will look after
themselves.
19) Courtesy and compassion cost nothing.
20) Treat others how you wish to be treated yourself.
21) You only get out of life what you put into it.
22) ‘I want’ never gets.
23) Mind your Ps and Qs.
24) Manners maketh the man.
25) Always wear clean underwear.
26) Don’t stare at people, it’s rude.
27) Watching too much TV will make your eyes go square.
28) Be true to yourself.
29) Always hold the door open.
30) Never leave the house with wet hair.
31) Never drink on an empty stomach.
32) Never go to bed on an argument.
33) Look up things you don’t know the answer to.
34) Never go under a ladder.
35) Never give up.
36) Receive compliments gracefully.
37) Don’t wear your coat indoors.
38) Mum knows best.
39) The grass is never greener.
40) Always eat your breakfast.
41) Life’s too short to be unhappy.
42) Always have 2 months rent/mortgage saved.
43) Don’t eat cheese before bedtime.
44) Give compliments easily.
45) Use a hand cream.
46) Don’t eat in the street.
47) Never offer a stranger a lift.
48) Don’t smoke in the street.
49) Never let your petrol tank go lower than a quarter full.
50) Men are very different creatures to women.
But some of them are not true, like #11 to Never swim on a full
stomach, and #27 Watching too much TV will make your eyes go square. So you could
ask people whether they agreed with the advice too. Pethaps #33 instead should say to Look up things you think you know the answer to.
The painting of a father and son (at Nottingham castle) was posted at Wikimedia Commons by Tshrinivasan.
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