Right Thing Quotes - Page 18

• The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.

  Peter Drucker

  Motivational, Pertinent Questions, Effort

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.102, Routledge

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• The amazing thing about the winners is that none of them really felt that they were doing anything special. They just felt like it was the right thing to do.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Inspiring, Special, Winner

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• It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

  Joan Blades

  Time, Children, Issues

  "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.

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• Doing the Right Thing - Sometimes doing the right thing, is to do nothing at all.

  Mike Kafka

  Action, Sometimes, Doing The Right Thing

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• Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Important, Doing The Right Thing

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• I have a lot to learn about NASCAR. But I've learned if you have the right people in the right places doing the right things, you can be successful at whatever you do.

  Roger Staubach

  Sports, Successful, People

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• I know that you've got to watch how you spend all the dollars. That's not the easiest thing to do. That's not what people think is the most fun thing to do, but it's the right thing to do.

  Rick Scott

  Fun, Thinking, People

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• I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Demand, Masterpiece

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• I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.

  Ann Veneman

  Confidence, Strong, Believe

  "Interview with Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman". "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2003.

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• The bottom line is about the technique. The little things. Fine-tuning what we have to do. No matter who is out there, maybe theyre not going to be as good, quote-unquote, as the starters may be, but the bottom line for us is to make sure were doing the right things.

  Kurt Warner

  Technique, Tuning, Lines

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• We must recognize the full human equality of all our people - before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this not because it is economically advantageous - although it is; not because the laws of God and man command it - although they do command it; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the single and fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Law, Land

  Robert Francis Kennedy (1967). “The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

  Shannon Miller

  Answers, Obstacles, Right Answers

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• EVERYTHING is dependent on whether or not we care... CHOOSE to care, CHOOSE to want, CHOOSE to do the right thing.

  Philip Larsen

  Choices, Care, Want

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• People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.

  Eric Ries

  Goal, Matter, Want

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.20, Crown Business

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• Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Heart, Secret, Promise

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• I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

  Howard Schultz

  People, Expectations, Stills

  Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon (2012). “Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul”, p.28, Rodale

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• Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

  Susie Bright

  Magic, Disappear, Made

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• Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

  David Carson

  Communication, Mean, Legibility

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• Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

  Maurice Ashley

  Thinking, Trying, Quality

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• A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

  Marvin Bower

  Effectiveness, People, Principles

  Marvin Bower (1966). “The will to manage: corporate success through programmed management”

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• Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

  Patrick MacGill

  Men, Doe, Done

  MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.7, Read Books Ltd

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• There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

  Stewart Baker

  Thinking, Culture, Libertarian

  "Former NSA lawyer: the cyberwar is between tech firms and the US government" by Jemima Kiss, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2014.

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• As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

  Sam Altman

  Long, Beats, Bigger

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• If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

  Kelly Miller

  Initiative, Efficiency, Ability

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