Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
IDA TARBELLImagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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