The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELLThe economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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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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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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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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