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.
IDA TARBELLThe surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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