we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELLThe theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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The 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.
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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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