“What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
Jennifer McMahon (1968) American writer
Source: Don't Breathe a Word
“Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.”
Peter F. Hamilton book The Dreaming Void
Source: The Dreaming Void
“You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Leonard D. White (1891–1958) American historian
Source: Introduction to the Study of Public Administration, 1926, p. 144
“Managers cannot learn from doing things right, only from doing them wrong”
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) Scientist
Source: 2000s, A little book of f-laws: 13 common sins of management, 2006, p. 37 cited in: Andrew Carey (2008) Inside Project Red Stripe: Incubating Innovation and Teamwork at the Economist. p. 49.