How to Use golden rule in a Sentence

golden rule

noun
  • The golden rule in sales is to know your customer.
  • I try to live by the Golden Rule.
  • Swaney’s golden rule for roasting start-up founders is to give genuine feedback on their business — and leave their clothing or appearance out of it.
    Lisa Bonos, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
  • One version of the golden rule is that the person with the gold makes the rules.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 1 June 2021
  • Think of the old golden rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
    Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Here’s the golden rule: When in doubt, toss the maybe-rotten egg out.
    Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Indeed, the golden rule of the art form is to make your partner look good.
    Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The golden rule for helping the earth is to produce less new stuff.
    Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The golden rule of makeup is to take it off before bed.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Perhaps the golden rule is to always come to a full stop at all stop signs.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
  • One golden rule that's stuck with Kaling is taking off her makeup at the end of the day.
    Michelle Lee, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2022
  • Because retinol is so potent, the golden rule is to start low and slow.
    Sarah Han, Allure, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This leads to my golden rule in HR, which is that there is no single rule in HR.
    Modar Bakir, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • First, from my 25 years on the job, a few golden rules about hiring high school coaches that guide good schools.
    Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2018
  • Stephen Kent Johnson Keeping things neat and tidy is a golden rule for house guests.
    Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The hidden dress codes Everyone knows the golden rule: Don’t wear white.
    Patricia Garcia, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The golden rule of skincare is always to wear sunscreen.
    Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 20 Dec. 2022
  • This brings me to one of my golden rules of long-haul family travel.
    Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • To stand out in a crowded landscape, go beyond your KPIs and practice the golden rule.
    Jia Wertz, Forbes, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Whoever gets the golden rake brings it to the next game — that's sort of the golden rule — and there have been a lot of rakes awarded this season.
    Walter Villa, miamiherald, 18 May 2018
  • The golden rule of technical traders is simple: Price is King.
    Oliver Renick, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Dublanica says his final rule of thumb is the golden rule.
    Aimee Picchi, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2019
  • But the golden rule of traveling in bear country is to store food, and anything that smells like food, away from your tent.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Here's insider access to the golden rules of skin care, straight from A-list treatment rooms.
    Liz Krieger, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Nov. 2015
  • Lighting makes or breaks any photo, and trail cam pics aren’t immune to that golden rule.
    Tony Hansen, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2019
  • One of the golden rules of sneaker collecting is that your shoes must always look new.
    David Pierson, latimes.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • That also means six feet apart will continue to be a golden rule.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2021
  • That being said, don't break that golden rule of using them as your knockout pick.
    Jim Derry, NOLA.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • For Tee Tran, the golden rule is not just an aspiration.
    New York Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • One of the core tenets of Southern hospitality is the golden rule.
    Karla Walsh, Southern Living, 14 July 2024

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