Best and second-best advice ever

My Favorite Quotes document is in its tenth year of growth.  Unsurprisingly, the first and second entries are my first and second favorites; they both pack a ton of practical guidance into just a few brief words .  . .

The best advice is the first entry, which comes to us from the famous management thinker Peter F. Drucker.  It is a perfect corrollary to the rule that life is a series of choices:

Choose on the basis of “what is right,” not “who is right.”

Think about that one for a minute.  Then contrast it with the wide variety of approaches taken by the wide variety of weblogs you've visited. Sheds an interesting light on things, doesn't it?

The second-best comes to us from a ranch hand tour guide somewhere in Colorado, sometime in the late '90s.  He dispensed this wisdom to a group of us on a bus headed for an afternoon of fun at his employer's ranch:

When you're wearin' five-buckle boots, don't stand in six-buckle manure.

I believe that one should be self-explanatory.

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