From the Rockefeller Foundation’s history page, 1923:
Frederick T. Gates, credited with urging John D. Rockefeller Sr. to launch the Foundation says to his fellow trustees in his last meeting as member of the Board, “When you die and come to approach the judgment of Almighty God, what do you think He will demand of you? Do you for an instant presume to believe that He will inquire into your petty failures or your trivial virtues? No! He will ask just one question: ‘What did you do as a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation?’”
I think this might be the earliest example I’ve yet come across of someone Doing The Thing.
From the Rockefeller Foundation’s history page, 1923:
I think this might be the earliest example I’ve yet come across of someone Doing The Thing.