"Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter."
"The essence of any plan for financing old age is saving-to put aside some part of today's earnings for the future. Anything that saps the value of savings-and inflation is the worst single threat-is the enemy of the aged and of those who expect to grow old."
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Source: Bernard Baruch's Speech before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, 1948.
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