No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
IDA TARBELLIt 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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 decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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