Forrest Branch Rule of Thumb

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.

Ted Turner Rule of Thumb

If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect.

Oscar Wilde Rule of Thumb

Be yourself ... everyone else is already taken!

Confucius Rule of Thumb

Choose a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life!

Ray Kroc Rule of Thumb

The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Samuel A. Culbert Rule of Thumb

The performance review ... is a pretentious, bogus practice that produces absolutely nothing that any thinking executive should call a corporate plus. ... Reviewing performance is good but it should happen every day. Employees need evaluations they can believe, and not the fraudulent ones they receive. ... If performance reviews are so objective, why is it that so many people get totally different ratings simply by switching bosses?

Bobby Bowden Rule of Thumb

Reputation is what people say about you, character is what God knows about you!

Ken Reed Rule of Thumb

You are what you do.

Steven Pressfield Rules of Thumb

Activities that most commonly elicit Resistance ...

1. The pursuit of any calling in writing, painting, music, film, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional.
2. The launching of any entrepreneurial venture or enterprise, for profit or otherwise.
3. Any diet or health regimen.
4. Any program of spiritual advancement.
5. Any activity whose aim is tighter abdominals.
6. Any course or program designed to overcome an unwholesome habit or addiction.
7. Education of every kind.
8. Any act of political, moral, or ethical courage, including the decision to change for the better some unworthy pattern of thought or conduct in ourselves.
9. The undertaking of any enterprise or endeavor whose aim is to help others.
10. Any act that entails commitment of the heart ... the decision to get married, to have a child, to weather a rocky patch in a relationship.
11. The taking of any principled stand in the face of adversity.

[From The War of Art, Steven Pressfield]