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张謇要看得更远一些，他说：“世界今日之竞争，农工商业之竞争也；农工商业之竞争，学问之竞争，实践、责任、合群、阅历、能力之竞争也。”
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张謇认定：“立宪大本在政府，人民则宜各任实业教育为自治基础；与其多言，不如人人实行，得尺则尺，得寸则寸。”
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他曾说过：“一个人办一县事，要有一省的眼光，办一省事，要有一国之眼光，办一国事，要有世界的眼光。”
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给这位日本作家深刻印象的还有，张謇的意见都很彻底、很具体，“特别是在自己会见的许多中国人中，只有张謇一人利用数字来立说……他回答自己的提问是经过深思熟虑的，而且将自己确信的事言简意赅地说出来。”
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张孝若回忆：“我父认为改良社会，要从各方各事下手，尤其对于人民习惯最近、观念最易的地方，应该设法改良引导，格外容易使效果。”
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“天之生人也，与草木无异。若遗留一二有用事业，与草木同生，即不与草木同腐。故踊跃从公者，做一分便是一分，做一寸便是一寸。”这是张謇的民言。
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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind,it is not a matter of rosy checks, supple knees, it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshess of the deep spring of  life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adverture over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more then a boy of 20. Nobody grows merely by the number of years, we grow old by deserting our ideas.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm weinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether 60 or 20. there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you've grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there's hope you may die young at 80.