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.
IDA TARBELLOne of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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 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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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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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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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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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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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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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[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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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