Advisers Quotes

(12/29/64) I`ve had lung cancer, the big C. But I`ve beaten the son of a bitch. Maybe I can give some poor bastard a little hope by being honest. I want people to know cancer can be licked. My advisers all told me that the public doesn`t want its movie heroes associated with serious illness like cancer, that it destroys their image. Well, I don`t care much about images, and, anyway, I would have thought there was a lot better image in the fact that John Wayne had cancer and licked it.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

We have careers advisers who say to youngsters `you need to go to university`. That is arrant nonsense.

It was a time of a very weak economy. So even though our advisers urged us to trim our sails, we didn`t. And now the success will strengthen our entire institution.

Small business owners go to the people they consider their trusted advisers.

The archbishop of Canterbury and his advisers are reviewing this matter at the present moment. I prefer not to make any statement.

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

If the King disregarded it, constitutional monarchy would cease to exist. The King is bound to accept and act upon the advice of his ministers ... for the King to broadcast in disregard of that advice would be appealing over the heads of his constitutional advisers.

There are so many charlatans out there who are passing themselves off as respectable investment advisers, ... The only way to protect yourself is to not believe anybody.

I wouldn`t think that used car salesmen have any more of a monopoly on misleading claims than financial advisers, ... My advice is don`t believe anybody.