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.
IDA TARBELLThe economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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