As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
IDA TARBELLThere is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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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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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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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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