The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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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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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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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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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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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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