One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
IDA TARBELLVery 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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[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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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