All my life I’ve been competing and competing to win. I came to realize that in this way, this cancer was the toughest competition I had faced yet. I made up my mind that I was going to lick it all the way. I not only wasn’t going to let it kill me, I wasn’t even going to let it put me on the shelf.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.