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.
IDA TARBELLThe first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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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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