Malcolm X Rule of Thumb

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Howard Ruff Rule of Thumb

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark!

Tony Clark Rule of Thumb

Waiting for everything to be perfect before you launch is a mistake ... first, it will never be perfect ... second, perfection is not a prerequisite for success ... the best way to know if you’re ready is to start now.

Warren Buffet Rule of Thumb

Always have a margin of safety, in case something goes wrong.

Jan Konstanty Rule of Thumb

It's the planning, not the plan.

Peter Drucker Rule of Thumb

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Thomas Huxley Rule of Thumb

The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact!

H. H. Williams Rule of Thumb

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Abraham Lincoln Rule of Thumb

If I had nine hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six sharpening my ax.

Ed Sperling Rule of Thumb

It is better to have a plan than to be given one, and it's better to say how you're going to cut costs than to be told your budget is being cut.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Rule of Thumb

It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

W. E. Hick Rule of Thumb

The time required to make a choice from a menu of n items rises with the log to the base two of n ... in other words, the fewer the choices the quicker the decision.

John C. Wright Rule of Thumb

Changes will come, but other changes will come after, wiping out each layer of change like waves on a beach, erasing the ripples in sand cast up by the previous wave ... everything is sand.

Jean-Paul Sartre Rule of Thumb

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do!

Edgar Cayce Rule of Thumb

Start where you are.

Lewis Carroll Rule of Thumb

Alice came to the fork in the road ... "Which road do I take?" she asked ... "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat ... "I don't know," Alice answered ... "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

Randy Pausch Rule of Thumb

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Dorf and Byers Rule of Thumb

A business plan serves as an alignment tool for a new business venture.

George Jackson Rule of Thumb

Patience has its limits ... take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson Rule of Thumb

Work expands to fill the time available for completion.