14 successful people share the best advice they ever got from their dads

Father's Day has arrived in the United States.Dads love to give advice. And, sometimes, it turns out to be pretty great advice.Check out these insights from the fathers of people who went on to succeed in business.Father's Day is here in the US. Time to contemplate everything your dad has done for youand maybe even reflect on his advice and insight.You never know. Your dad's classic mantra might turn out to be words to live by. Plenty of famous success stories have had great results with taking such paternal gems to heart.In honor of Father's Day, we've collected the best advice super-successful business leaders ever got from their dads.Here's the fatherly wisdom:SEE ALSO:A tech CEO's experience as a single dad convinced him to overhaul his $3 billion company's benefitsMeg Whitman: Be niceWhile "be nice" may sound like a platitude, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO said it's some of themost important advice she ever got."I'll never forget my father telling me that," Whitman recalled in Fortune in 2005. "I had been mean to someone. He said, 'There is no point in being mean to anyone at any time. You never know who you're going to meet later in life. And by the way, you don't change anything by being mean. Usually you don't get anywhere.'"T. Boone Pickens: Have a planThe chairman of BP Capital Management was a student at Oklahoma State when his dad arrived on campus for his fraternity initiationand delivered a life-changing message."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."Bill Gates: Do what you're not good atThese days, the former Microsoft CEO and his lawyer father give each other advice as cochairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but back in the day, the elder Gates was the one doling out counsel to his son.The most important lesson Gates ever learned from his dad' Invest in thingseven if you're not good at them.In a 2009 conversation with Fortune, he recalled that both his parents encouraged him to "to go out for a lot of different sports like swimming, football, soccer," he says. "At the time I thought it was kind of pointless, but it ended up really exposing me to leadership opportunities and showing me that I wasn't good at a lot of things, instead of sticking to things that I was comfortable with."His father agrees that those early forced softball team memberships seem to have worked out okay. "Apparently it turned out to be good advice."See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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