Proverbs 4:1 KJV — Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
T.Boone Pickens on the best piece of advice his father gave him:
“A fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan any day,” he told Pickens. “And your mother and I think we have a fool with no plan. We think you’re wasting your time here in Stillwater. You’re not getting anywhere.”
His dad was right, Pickens wrote on LinkedIn in 2014. “I had to admit I wasn’t burning up the place.” But within a month of that visit, everything changed. He picked a track and switched his major. “I got a plan,” he says, “and I’ve had one ever since.”