"To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been."

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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

— Lewis H. Lapham