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,.
IDA TARBELLCanonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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One 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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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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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