“I am in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing.”
Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer
Variant: I am in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.
“The Discipline to do the right thing at the right time with the right mindset begins with the little things”
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“The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.”
Patti Callahan Henry American writer
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Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement
Source: Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Peter F. Drucker book The Essential Drucker
Misattributed
Variant: Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Source: The Essential Drucker
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Warren Bennis (1925–2014) American leadership expert
Peter Drucker, and Warren Bennis, as quoted in Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989) by Stephen R. Covey, p. 101
1980s
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Peter Drucker, and Warren Bennis, as quoted by Covey, in The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), this has sometimes become misattributed to him.
Misattributed
“God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
“Unless you do the right things, the right things will not happen to you.”
Sadhguru book Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
Source: Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy
“If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru
Source: Opportunity and Self-Transcendence (1977), p. 21
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 36 (p. 363)