Red Queen Rule of Thumb

It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place ... if you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Gordon Moore Rule of Thumb

Computers have increased in price performance by roughly 100% every 18 months.

Estelle Reiner Rule of Thumb

I'll have what she's having!

Ted Kennedy Rule of Thumb

Children should not be denied the opportunity for a healthy start in life because their parents cannot afford insurance ... families should not have to worry about paying medical bills at the same time they are struggling to cope with all the other strains that serious illness brings ... older couples should not see the savings of a lifetime swept away by a tidal wave of medical debt ... and no Americans should find that the quality of their medical care is determined by the quantity of their wealth ... but that fundamental wrong occurs every day in America, over and over and over again.

Todd Hill Rule of Thumb

In journalism, it takes three events of a similar nature to constitute a trend, but in this wilderness called the blogosphere all we really need is two, if that!

Pierre Omidyar Rule of Thumb

eBay has 150 million customers ... in the nicest terms, that's 150 million people who have learned to trust strangers!

Bertrand Russell Rule of Thumb

If people are offered a fact which goes against their beliefs, they will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, they will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, they are offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to their beliefs, they will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

George Bernard Shaw Rule of Thumb

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

Arthur Okun Rule of Thumb

For every one percent the actual unemployment rate exceeds the natural rate of unemployment, real gross domestic product will be reduced by two to three percent.

John Naisbitt Rule of Thumb

While many things change, most things remain constant!

William Ramsay Clark Rule of Thumb

Turbulence is an opportunity ... use it for change!

Jim Jindrick Rule of Thumb

Change is a challenge to make things better!

Heraclitus of Ephesus Rule of Thumb

Nothing endures but change!

Warren Buffet Rule of Thumb

The rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield!

Carly Fiorina Rule of Thumb

Technology will literally transform every aspect of business, every aspect of life, and every aspect of society!

John Naisbitt Rule of Thumb

The future is embedded in the present!

Doug Ferrari Rule of Thumb

MTV was the lava lamp of the 1980's.

Rachel Ray Rule of Thumb

Spend a lot of time spying on your customers, looking for tipoffs to new trends!

Walt Kelly Rule of Thumb

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities!

Benjamin Disraeli Rule of Thumb

What we anticipate seldom occurs...what we least expect usually happens.