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.
IDA TARBELLI came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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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 quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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