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.
IDA TARBELLI wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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