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. …
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.
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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