The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
IDA TARBELLMany men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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 wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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