The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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