In business and in life, there are sets of rules that make sense to follow, but the primary ones the First Rule of many of these sets are ignored because it's assumed you already know them because they make so much sense, in fact most of us don’t think about them, so I have tried to write them down as I went through my work biography. For example the set of rules we learn in driving are: Stay right, pass left, stay in your lane, don't speed, etc. The First Rule, the most important rule of driving is assumed. The.