The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you. Charles Dickens
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. Warren Buffett
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind. Carl Hiaasen
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side. -Zedd, Wizard's First Rule. Terry Goodkind
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. Bill Gates
(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable. Gregory Benford