golden rule
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For decades, Wall Street’s golden rule has been to buy winning stocks and hold them forever.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
“It is the golden rule, the idea that you treat people the way you want to be treated,” Nolan explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
By posing for the magazine spread, the bankers had broken the golden rule of finance fashion: Never dress above your station—and certainly never better than the boss.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Out on the waves, where freedom of navigation is a golden rule, the ability and appetite of coastal countries to intervene is limited, even though the risk they face is escalating.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025
Chumru, who had no knowledge of warfare beyond his recent experiences, was acquainted with the golden rule that the shorter the time spent as an involuntary target the less chance is there of being hit.
From The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny by Louis Tracy
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