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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
— John D. Rockefeller
Industrialist, founder of Standard Oil

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Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. 1907. (Public domain)

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