I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
IDA TARBELLSpeculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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