ask forgiveness get permission

[Herb Stahlke]

I learned it as "It's easier to apologize that to ask for permission."


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
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> The wikiquote entry for Grace Hopper credits here with"It's easier to ask
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> orgiveness than it is to get permission." (quoted in the U.S. Navy's Chips
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> Ahoy magazine=2C July 1986)
> I don't see it covered in the archives.
> _Duncanville [TX] Suburban_ 9/24/1981 p 2 col 1"Stewart's Law of
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> n: It's easier to get forgiveness than permission."
> Bill Mullins
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