The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
IDA TARBELLA more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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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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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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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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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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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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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