A Quote by Elihu Root

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Elihu Root

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Elihu Root
American - Lawyer
February 15, 1845 - February 7, 1937

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