Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
IDA TARBELLwe were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
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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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