Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
IDA TARBELLOne 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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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I 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.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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