No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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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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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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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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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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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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