A gold trophy wearing a white ruff stands beneath a small spotlight.

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Dwight Morrow

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.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker splits the world into those who actually accomplish things and those who receive the recognition, then advises joining the first group. The closing quip is that the doers face much less competition, wryly implying that crowds chase credit while real work is left uncontested.

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