Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
IDA TARBELLLife is but a collection of habits.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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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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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 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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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