Who Gets The Credit

The Priest, Author, Scholar, or President?

August 28, 2025

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“It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you do not care who gets the credit.” -Harry S Truman

The real irony of this quote is it’s actually disputed who said this first. A Jesuit Priest, an American author, an Oxford scholar, a Journalist, and an American President all have claim to a variation of this quote, so who gets credit?

Easy, whichever one of them could do the most push ups. That, or whichever one resonates best with you. After all, that’s what they all claim to want.

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