The 1 Rule Quotes

#1. How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#2. If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.

Barton Gellman

#3. Rule #1: The customer is always right. Rule #2: If the customer is wrong, please refer to rule #1.
-Duncan Howe

Ann Brashares

#4. I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.

Mark Frost

#5. Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.

Peter Morville

#6. Rule 1: The actions of confidence come first; the feelings of confidence come later.

Russ Harris

#7. Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt, see Rule #1.

Warren Buffett

#8. Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow' ... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#9. Rule 1: Eat more fat (healthy fat) to reduce silent inflammation. Rule 2: Eat living foods every day to balance the gut.

Brenda Watson

#10. Rule #1 in all bridal magazines. Give yourself a year to plan the
perfect wedding.

Jillian Dodd

#11. Rule #17: To rescue a princess from magical imprisonment, a handsome prince must first slay the dragon. If one is not available, a large iguana will do in a pinch."
- Definitive Fairy-Tale Survival Guide, Volume 1

Betsy Schow

#12. 1) I'm, a, comma, whore. Apparently, I throw them around like confetti. Or glitter. The title of my next book: WHY COMMAS RULE THE WORLD, AND STUFF.

Kimberly Derting

#13. Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.

Mark Cuban

#14. Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

Brian Tracy

#15. New Rule: Stop lying to me about your pancake mix. The back of the box says 1 1/2 cups makes ten to twelve pancakes. Really? 'Cause I get four. Who's your cook, Jesus?

Bill Maher

#16. I've always said the key to killing a lot of mallards if you live on the East Coast is to move west. The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

Jase Robertson

#17. Basketball Rule #1

In this game of life
your family is the court
and the ball is your heart.
No matter how good you are,
no matter how down you get,
always leave
your heart
on the court.

Kwame Alexander

#18. Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Maureen Dowd

#20. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser one to rule the night. He made stars also.
Genesis 1:16

Anonymous

#21. Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world.
1. Think short term.
2. Be greedy.
3. Believe in the greater fool
4. Run with the herd.
5. Overgeneralize
6. Be trendy
7. Play with other people's money

Paul Krugman

#22. There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

Finn Taylor

#23. Rule 1 for Mortals: Love the Lord your God (with every bit of you).
Rule 2 for Mortals: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Tip 1 for Mortals: Ask God to call your bluffs.

N.D. Wilson

#24. Rule #1: No cut or compromise should be suggested by ANY member of the community. This includes the music coalition, music educators, and the music supervisor.
Suggest a cut or compromise, and you become responsible for the decision.

John Benham

#25. I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

O. Henry

#26. New Rule: Instead of killing 99.9 percent of germs, Lysol has to just go ahead and kill them all. Why spare the remaining 0.1 percent? So they can return to their villages and tell the other germs, "Dude, do not mess with Lysol"?

Bill Maher

#27. Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

Steven Moffat

#28. If you are wondering if the Rule works if you count forward 1- 2- 3- 4- 5, instead of backwards 5- 4- 3- 2- 1, the answer is no - it doesn't. Just

Mel Robbins

#29. Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.

The Velominati

#30. Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is

Rob Pike

#31. The Warrior's Diet Three Rules of Eating:
Rule #1: Always start with subtle-tasting foods and move to the more
aggressive foods.
Rule #2: Include as many tastes, textures, colors, and aromas as possible in your main meal.
Rule #3: Stop eating when you feel much more thirsty than hungry.

Ori Hofmekler

#32. Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.

Walter A. Shewhart

#33. By and large, I think it should be a rule in the teacher employment manual that you can't go attend any event where if you took your classroom on a student field trip, they would summarily be obliterated. That should be rule No. 1.

Dennis Miller

#34. We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going to be implemented Jan. 1, 2012, where they're going to begin to regulate dust. That's right, dust. It's called PM 2.5. That is focusing on the wrong thing.

Herman Cain

#35. Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.

James D. Beers

#36. Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

Sallie Krawcheck

#37. The rule of thumb is: the lower the temperature of the light, the more hygge. A camera flash is around 5,500 Kelvin (K), fluorescent tubes are 5,000K, incandescent lamps 3,000K, while sunsets and wood and candle flames are about 1,800K. That is your hygge sweet spot. The

Meik Wiking

#38. Rule #1 of Traveling-
Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?

Sanhita Baruah

#39. Believe nothing others tell you. That is Rule No 1 of life in Astro City.

But what if the ones who set the rules are the ones lying to you?

What if the ones who reprimand the rule-breakers are lying to you?

Who do you believe when there is nobody left to believe?

Lisa Alfonso

#40. One rule of thumb you should use when setting deadlines for yourself is to carefully consider how much time you expect the entire project to take and multiple that number by 1.5. For example, if you think your project is going to take 10 days to complete, plan to give yourself 15 days.

Ric Thompson

#41. The epic explosion of praise for our blessings in Christ (Ephesians 1:1-14) deepens our appreciation of God's almighty rule;

Richard Coekin

#42. Rule #1: Sweat equity is the best startup capital

Mark Cuban