Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
IDA TARBELLThey 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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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 first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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As 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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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