THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

BOB'S BIOGRAPHY | 2004-07-13

All my life I have been a great advisor. I made a good living at it, but I was also good at it on a personal level.

I can't tell you how many times people have quoted things I said to them that helped them enormously and my immediate reaction was "Damn, that was great stuff. Why didn't **I** listen to me?"

My life has been a mess, and I cannot deny that I knew better.

About 1950 Walt Disney made a movie called "Alice in Wonderland." One song from that movie has haunted me ever since.

The refrain of that song was:

"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."

And that, ladies and gentleman, is Bob's biography in a nutshell.