Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
IDA TARBELLI have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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.
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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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 popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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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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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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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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