“The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.”

From a letter to his son, as quoted in Harold Nicolson, Dwight Morrow (1935), p. 52

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American politician 1873–1931

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“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

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