[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
IDA TARBELLThere is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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. …
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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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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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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 first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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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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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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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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[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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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