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,.
IDA TARBELLNow, 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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[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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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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