Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
IDA TARBELLTo denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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