maxim
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Following his father’s maxim that “if you ain’t first, you’re last,” Ricky Bobby can’t imagine a win for anyone else as anything less than something stolen from him.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Jody might throw in a maxim long framed on her bathroom wall: “Quityerbellyachin.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Billionaire Warren Buffett had a simple maxim for navigating Berkshire Hathaway through the financial crisis of 2007-09.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
In the coaching world, there is a maxim some believe in - that teams are built in the image of their coaches.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
There is a maxim in the advertising business that an advertisement has to be seen at least six times before anyone will remember it.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
Central bankers have been known to quote External link one of economist John Maynard Keynes’s most famous maxims: “When the facts change, I change my mind.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
How many of these business maxims from his “Poor Richard’s Almanack” can you remember?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
He hears him, Bridge: the maxims, the strategies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Journalists, so those maxims go, should never make themselves the story or get too close to those they are covering.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
Pirkei Avot is a collection of Rabbinic maxims, and a chapter of it is studied by many Jews every Shabbat between Passover and the Jewish New Year.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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