The Moral Vision
Aiming High
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mousetrap that you have the reputation for making
well, people will come knocking at your door for it.
The real mistake is to produce the same quality of
goods with which the market is already flooded. It
is pointless to do this, then complain about being
discriminated against. If you work hard and bend
your brains to producing something superior in
design and quality to what is already on the market,
people will flock to buy it.
“No society is ever free of prejudice and narrow-
mindedness; it is just one unfortunate aspect of
community-living. The difference in this from one
society to another is only one of degree. But these
are barriers which can definitely be surmounted
through diligence and application. Let us suppose
that you have passed an examination with 45
percent marks, giving you a very slight advantage
over a rival who only has forty percent. In such a
case, it is quite conceivable that prejudice could
come in your way, and your application could be
rejected in favour of your rival’s. But let us suppose
that you had eighty percent marks. All the walls of
prejudice would then have to crumble and fall in
the face of superior talent. No one would then dare
