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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.

Ida Tarbell

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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Achieve Business Class Consequence Larger Method Practically Sanctified
Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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Been Believe Defend Gold Human Idea Impose Land Life Live Quarrel Religion Sacredness Settle Won World
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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Abonded Against Belong Circle Knew replace Respectable Security Value Whole Force Won
To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Above Creative Democratic Dumb Essential Growth Ideal Impulse Vitality
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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Another Been Business Contribute Country Development Good Health Heap Men Only Proof Shorter Women
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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Ambition Behind Democracy Destroy Initiative Mean Motion National Our Ourselves Perhaps Standardization Standardize Surest Way
Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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Always Bank Business Buy Cheap Control Enough High Manage Money Rule Sell Stock Temporary
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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Accept Dangerous Fix Make Man Model More Position Power Rate Refuse Right Tariff Truth Video Work
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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Admit Business Country Dealing Declare Employ End Excuse Force Fraud Hard Justify Legitimate Often People Person Privileges Secure See Sly Special Tricks Very Willing
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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Company Country Guilty Monopolistic Now Oconcern Oil Power Practice Standard Story Write
I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Company Know Oil People Standard Truth Want
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.
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Book Company Corrupt Decide Eye Open People Person Successful Unfair Used Ways Write
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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Age Cheerful Finest Influence Old One Rip Understanding Useful World
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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Abuse Athlete Commerce Fit Gone Make Men Pursuit Recieve Rule Shall Toward Young
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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Art Boast Boost Commercial Craft Cultivation People Produce Wealth
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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Been Business Do Experiment Long Shorter Stand Surprise Fight

When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.

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