I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
IDA TARBELLIt 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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