Liebling’s Law
A. J. Liebling
If you try hard enough you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
Longworth’s Law
Alice Longworth
You can’t make a soufflé rise twice.
Maugham’s Law
W. Somerset Maugham
You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Micawber’s First Law
Charles Dickens
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Midas’s Law
John Updike
Possession diminishes perception of value immediately.
Mitchell’s Law
John N. Mitchell
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Ohm’s Law
Georg Simon Ohm
The electric current in any circuit is directly proportional to the voltage and inversely proportional to the resistance.
Powell’s Rules
Colin L. Powell
- It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.
- Get mad then get over it.
- Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls your ego goes with it.
- It can be done!
- Be careful what you choose. You may get it.
- Don’t let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
- You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.
- Check small things.
- Share credit.
- Remain calm. Be kind.
- Have a vision. Be demanding.
- Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
- Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Rowland’s Law
Helen Rowland
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.
Runyon’s First Law
Damon Runyon
All life is 6 to 5 against.
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