The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
IDA TARBELLImagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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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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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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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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