As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
IDA TARBELLa little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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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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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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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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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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