Rules Quotes

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Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important. — Gloria Steinem
I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great… — Tecumseh
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. — Confucius
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Play by the rules, but be ferocious. — Phil Knight
My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1. — Connie Schultz
You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules. — Bobby Jones
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. — Dee Hock
Don Keough's (CEO Coca-Cola) 11 Rules on "HOW TO LOSE": 1. Stop taking risks 2. Be content 3. Never deviate from what the founder did… — Donald Keough
The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles. — Jeffrey Gitomer
You are allowed to do this - don't worry about the rules, don't worry about getting into trouble, your job is to take care of… — John E. Pepper, Jr.
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. — John Dewey
Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts. — Mike Krzyzewski
In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. — Hayden Fry
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures. — Amory Lovins
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. — Richard J. Maybury
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. — Karl Marx
A man is a little thing while he works by and for himself; but when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read,… — Bernard Iddings Bell

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