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Aphorisms: I can’t give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody.

"I can’t give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody."

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Discover the formula for failure by trying to please everybody. Wisdom from Gerard Swope.

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— Gerard Swope

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