We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
IDA TARBELLAs a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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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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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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