John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
As quoted in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007) edited by Ted Goodman, p. 175
“In the coming era, doing the exactly right next thing is far more fruitful than doing the same thing twice.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
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“The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same thing.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 61
Dick Cheney (1941) American politician and businessman
Vice Presidential Debate October 5, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3718956.stm http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6187803/ <br class="br">2000s, 2004
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
A Short History of England (1917)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
As quoted by John M. Kost http://www.mackinac.org/bio.aspx?ID=104 (25 July 1995) in S. 946, the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1995: hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs (1996). <br class="br">This appears to derive from a 1910 advertisement by writer Alfred Henry Lewis for a forthcoming series of biographical articles about Roosevelt: "All activity, Mr. Roosevelt has often shown that it is better to do the wrong thing than do nothing at all. In politics this last is peculiarly true. The best thing is to do the right thing; the next best is to do the wrong thing; the worst thing of all things is to stand perfectly still". (e.g. in La Follette's Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=RV4CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA183&dq=%22best+thing%22+%22right+thing%22+%22worst+thing%22+nothing&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjNksu-nZrMAhVDy2MKHSl1Df8Q6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%22the%20best%20thing%20is%20to%20do%20the%20right%20thing%22&f=false (28 May 1910) <br class="br">Disputed
“When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.”
Arthur Ransome book Swallowdale
Swallowdale (Chapter 8), 1931