"There are always two kinds of people in the world - those who pioneer and those who plod. The plodders always attack the pioneers. They say that the pioneers have gobbled up all the opportunity, when, as a plain matter of fact, the plodders would have nowhere to plod had not the pioneers first cleared the way."

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Source: Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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Henry Ford was an American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company, known for revolutionizing the automobile industry with assembly line production.

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