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“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability.
— John D. Rockefeller
Industrialist and philanthropist
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Photo: Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · Portrait: Published by Scientific American Compiling Dep't, New York. 1907. (Public domain)
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