Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
IDA TARBELLAs 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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[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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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Many 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.
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