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McCormick's biographer William T. Hutchinson writes: 'Success to him did not mean the accumulation of money. In the many hundreds of his letters, profits are given a subordinate place among the objectives of the season's business.' His focus was always on beating someone, whatever the cost. He spent $90,000 fighting objections to an extension of his original patent, in return for $40,000 in royalties.
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