My latest addition to the work discussion board about Achievement
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit - a very great comment by former US President Harry Truman.
It was later slightly reworked by Ronald Regan, who did not give any credit to Truman for the comment. It's odd that Regan didn't understand that his act of plagiarism entirely contradicted everything that the quote so strongly embodied.
It must be remembered though that Regan wasn't regarded as being a very smart man. Margaret Thatcher once quipped "Poor man, there's nothing between his ears."
I'm not aware of Thatcher's qualifications in neuroscience, but if she's right, then it's is a tremendous feat of achievement that Regan was able to become a US President at all, and that his reworking of Truman's quote isn't a contradiction but a remarkable achievement in science.