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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
-Thomas A. Edison
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My Principal Business Is Giving Commercial Value

Thomas A. Edison
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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