Your Advisor Quotes

#1. What if your advisor talks only about returns, not risk? ... It's his job to take risk into account by telling you the range of possible outcomes you face. If he won't, go to a new planner, someone who will get real.

William Forsyth Sharpe

#2. The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.

China Mieville

#3. Think of yourself as a resource to your clients;an advisor,counselor,mentor and friend.

Brian Tracy

#4. 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

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

Paul Putner

#6. One of the chief duties of the mathematician in acting as an advisor ... is to discourage ... from expecting too much from mathematics.

Norbert Wiener

#7. Snow White: You're still lost in the forest, but lonely, lost girls like us can be rescued. You are standing on the edge of greatness.
Virginia: I'm not. I'm useless. I'm a nobody.
Snow White: You will one day be like me, a great advisor to other lost girls. Now stand up.

Kathryn Wesley

#8. As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the Bay Area community. UnGrounded is strong proof of that commitment.

Rhonda Abrams

#9. Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

Warren Buffett

#10. Want to hear a sad story about the Dukakis campaign? The governor of Massachusetts, he lost his top naval advisor last week. His rubber ducky drowned in the bathtub.

Dan Quayle

#11. When you give up the hope that some advisor, some system, some source of inside tips is going to give you a shortcut to wealth, you'll finally begin to gain control over your financial future.

Harry Browne

#12. Why the confidential advisor provision is so important, because most women - the first place they go is online: "What do I do if I'm raped?" There's no knowledge about "How do I proceed?" in a way that's going to protect them.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#13. Be your own guide, confidant and advisor. Trust yourself above all others.

Truth Devour

#14. Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.

Joe Biden

#15. As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that.

Azim Premji

#16. He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

Pierre Corneille

#17. I am Devlin, brother and advisor to the High Queen, assassin, and keeper of order.

Melissa Marr

#18. In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.

Wolfgang Paul

#19. Wisdom is your earthly advisor;
love is your Heavenly advisor.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Thy shalt not worship thy investment advisor, for if she were so smart she would be retired by now.

Steven J. Lee

#21. I rob banks because that's where the money is.

Willie Sutton

#22. I think I might have a bad psychic advisor. When I asked her to contact the dead, she gave me Keith Richards' phone number.

David Letterman

#23. Sometimes, the best advisor is one that serves as a sounding board for his commander's thoughts.

B.V. Larson

#24. I was planning to end this phase after a few weeks, but after one particular meeting, the lead advisor asked me not to come back. She said she'd noticed that every time I was asked to give a suggestion about an ex-husband to a grieving divorcee, I always said, You should have him murdered.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#25. In fact, it is virtually impossible for students to do their own research without someone guiding their work. Having an advisor is absolutely essential.

Edward Frenkel

#26. Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.

Wayne Gretzky

#27. My readers and my audiences have turned into my followers. They are more than interested in what I have to say in the subjects of sales, loyalty, attitude, networking, business social media, and becoming a trusted advisor.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#28. Usually when reporting on powerful public figures, the press advisor and I would have had a conversation that established what journalists call 'ground rules,' placing restrictions on what can and cannot be reported.

Michael Hastings

#29. I could help you," I said. "Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.

Janet Evanovich

#30. Imagine how fluid life would be if we each had an advisor who, with our best interest at heart, provided clear, objective and decisive guidance. When we trust our instincts, we do.

Gina Greenlee

#31. There is a false saying: "How can someone who can't save himself save others?" Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?

Frederic Nietzsche

#32. Mentor is someone who has already done what you want to do and is successful at doing it. Don't find an advisor. An advisor is someone who tells you how to do it but may not have personally done it.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#33. Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

Bob Iger

#34. I did six internships, even though I was only allowed to do one. I had a paper with my advisor's signature on it that I would just forward for every new internship. I didn't get school credit, but I got away with giving free labor to everyone.

Grace Helbig

#35. If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.

William J. Bernstein

#36. It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#37. One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Tom Clancy

#38. 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

#39. An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.

Guy Kawasaki

#40. 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

#41. If you're uncomfortable with your financial advisor, it's probably with good reason.

Nancy Dunnan

#42. The whole concept of dividing it up into 'value' and 'growth' strikes me as twaddle. It's convenient for a bunch of pension fund consultants to get fees prattling about and a way for one advisor to distinguish himself from another. But, to me, all intelligent investing is value investing.

Charlie Munger

#43. I know you're competent and your thesis advisor knows you're competent. The question in our minds is are you really serious about what you're doing?"

This was said to a young woman who had already spent five years and over $10,000 getting to that point in her Ph.D. program.

Joanna Russ

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

Merton Miller

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. Arthur Compton became my graduate advisor. He was the ideal graduate advisor for me: he came into my research room only once during my graduate career and usually had no idea how I was spending my time.

Luis W. Alvarez

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

Edwin Moses

#50. In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

Laura Wasser

#51. I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

David Friedman

#52. An unwise advisor cannot hope to advise wisely.

T.A. Miles

#53. In this case, National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's orders were being carried out - "anything that flies on anything that moves," an open call for genocide that is rare in the historical record.

Noam Chomsky

#54. Alliances with other nations lead to bondage," Zechariah explained. "Joseph started out as Pharaoh's trusted advisor in Egypt, but later generations ended up as slaves. And wasn't it Ahaz's so-called alliance with Assyria that led to our present slavery?

Lynn Austin

#55. Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Elfriede Jelinek

#56. I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.

Adam Beach

#57. You must listen to your woman more as an oracle than as an advisor

David Deida

#58. As mutual fund returns vary widely, e.g. as of October 31, 2014, the 5-year annualized return has varied between -6.94% and 26.42% with average return of 13.62%. A right advisor can definitely provide value addition in fund selection and achieving your goals.

Jigar Patel

#59. Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

Terry Pratchett

#60. I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.

Willie Aames