I can only count on one hand, the amount of people who listened to me over the years and hodl.
Maybe it is because I am a shit salesman, but I'd gave it my best!
One truth in life is that people hear what they want to hear. I offered to sell a friend BTC and he immediately used it to buy one of the shittiest of shitcoins that someone else had told him he'd 'get rich quick' with.