Marketing Mondays: Bad Advice

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A recent Marketing Mondays asked you what advice you would give to your 20-year-old self. Your responses were helpful and uplifting. Now I'd like to flip that and ask:
What was the worst advice you've ever received?
As I mentioned in that previous post, a bogus piece of "advice" I got was  the one about the dealer being the artist's enemy. That same professor counseled