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 TARBELLNo value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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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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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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