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.
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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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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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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