The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
IDA TARBELLBuy 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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