Bear in mind that my brother's philosophy was based on limitations on what the individuals could do. By 15% I meant 15% of their range, not of the company's.

Kind of a variation on this:

"Whatever you run from will chase you."

If you are in trouble or something is bothering you, turn and face it right away rather than ignoring it. It applies to figuring out limits in Calculus before the next test, to stopping after you've mashed a parked car on the street with no one around.

gotta go back to the classics, for the best piece of advice, ever:

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Socrates ;)

Some relationship advice for guys: There are times in a relationship where it seems to most rational people that an honest opinion is required. This is a trap. While these times are hard to recognise until you are facing an icy stare it may help to rehearse these 'honest opinions' ahead of time;

You look great. That really suits you.
I like your hair.
I'm so sorry. It's completely my fault.
Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.

Another interesting bit of relationship advice, "actions speak louder than words." If you think your significant other should be kind, trying being kind to them rather telling them to be nice. It will be a good example and it will make them happy. So you've made your point, and you don't get yelled at for doing it :).

""Our most important job responsibility is to train our replacement." "
When I worked for IBM the theory was that when you got your new position your first job was to identify and groom your replacement. If you are not replaceable you are not promotable.

My father said:
"Never run up stairs, never back odds-on and never argue with a policemen."
My Uncle Seamus said:
"Thumb on the blade and cut upwards."

Upton Sinclair said: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

Or, perhaps, said person’s re-election? :cool:
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Precisely the point. In the US, reelection and corporate money are joined at the hip.

More Advice: Hijacking my thread to talk about politics or economics will get you smacked...through the internet.

My grandfather always used to say to me "don't **** where you eat."

For years I thought that was the most useless advice you could give someone till I realized it was a metaphor. took several more years after that to really appreciate what it meant.

Advice I give to people unsolicited (or when teaching them poker) "The right decision is always the right decision, no matter the outcome."

For those of us who worked mainly among women on customer sites came the advice:
You don't get your meat where you get your bread and butter.
Bit dated nowadays.

"Never wipe your arse with a broken bottle."

Said by a friend of mine in response to a taxi driver who asked for a tip.

lol - that's gone beyond 'dated' to become completely incomprehensible. what exactly is that supposed to mean?

but if you want advice, try this:

stepping up always serves you better then stepping back. assuming you survive... ;)

Who are you? Chuck Norris? (AKA Mikey-San)

You don't dip you pen in company ink.

You don't fish off the company pier.

If I was, would I need a forum to talk to all of you?

Don't date your customer's staff. It was a very big no-no.
One of my peers dated a card punch operator at a large customer. He did well that night.
Next day, as he entered the punch-room, 50 pairs of eyes bored into him. She'd told them everything that had happened. He was never able to go back to that site.
That said, marriages between our field guys and customer staff was not unknown.

Lets see, card punch rooms were when? So this anecdote would make you.... ancient?

when I was in high school, I had a teacher who insisted that these new-fangled things called cal-cu-la-tors would never replace slide rules for anyone doing serious math. and we had a computer on campus - it was a DEC machine with 128k of memory that needed its boot codes keyed in through a set of toggle switches on the front (it had an internal drive, yes, but I guess they hadn't figured out the software boot process yet).

my fingers can still run through the binary boot codes, if I think about it. good times, good times...