I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
IDA TARBELLThe athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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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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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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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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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 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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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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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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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