"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
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Quoted as Sandburg in Stop Whining! Start Selling!: Profit-Producing Strategies for Explosive Sales Results (2003) by Jeff Blackman, but without citation of original source; this is elsewhere attributed to Antoine de Saint Exupéry, but also with no original sources cited.
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Carl Sandburg
1878 – 1967
US-amerikanischer Dichter
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