“The world,” [Dwight Morrow] once wrote to his son, “is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.”
Quote Investigator tracked this quote down to a 1935 biography of Dwight Morrow by Harold Nicolson.
From the same investigation, Indira Ghandhi often expressed the same idea, that she attributed to her grandfather:
Some years ago, she recalled what Pandit Motilal Nehru once told her: “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work, and those who take the credit. Belong to the first category, since not only do things get balanced, but there is much less competition.” – 1959 February 8, The Times of India