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Simon BERGSON
Founder, President, and CEO of Manhattan Beer Distributors
My father’s guidance, experience, and positive mentality have influenced
me profoundly. After surviving fifty-eight months in three German
concentration camps during World War II (Mauthausen, Sachsenhausen,
and Auschwitz), he emigrated to America. Upon arriving with me, my
elder two-year-old sister, my mother, and a mere six dollars, he started a
men’s clothing business that eventually became an established company.
When I started my beer distribution business in 1978, he gave me advice
that was not only an explanation for his success and outlook, but also a
familiar saying that permeated my childhood Brooklyn neighborhood of
immigrants:
“America is a great country; the harder you work, the luckier you get.”
The harder you work, the luckier you get
