Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
IDA TARBELLCanonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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