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.
IDA TARBELLSuch fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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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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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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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,.
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I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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