“To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
Fred Shero (1925–1990) Former ice hockey player and coach
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“Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized.”
John North Willys (as reprinted in Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 2 (1998), pp. 331–337, Roycrofters, 1922).
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Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen
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Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen (1898), p. 370 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435065322687?urlappend=%3Bseq=458: "If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing—court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie." Other versions of the saying were repeated in several of Hubbard's later writings.
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