There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
IDA TARBELLThe economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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