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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 Tarbell

Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
IDA TARBELL

Buy Came Element Fluctuation Higher Hold Natural Price Quantity Speculator Storage Warly
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.
IDA TARBELL

Built Clear Contribution Depend Had Ilusion Individual Litle Man Matter never Realize Value Woman
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.
IDA TARBELL

After Anything Begin Chain Come Each End Endless Link Little Nobody Person Sonder Strong Those Weak
The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELL

Glad Have Marry One Only Reason Will Woman
To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELL

Above Creative Democratic Dumb Essential Growth Ideal Impulse Vitality
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.
IDA TARBELL

Been Believe Defend Gold Human Idea Impose Land Life Live Quarrel Religion Sacredness Settle Won World
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
IDA TARBELL

All Exist Future Imagination Key None Only Possible Thing
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
IDA TARBELL

Assumption Everything First Gun Imperative Mean Men Money Most Necessity War
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.
IDA TARBELL

Company Country Guilty Monopolistic Now Oconcern Oil Power Practice Standard Story Write
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
IDA TARBELL

Art Boast Boost Commercial Craft Cultivation People Produce Wealth
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.
IDA TARBELL

Admire Arouse Contempt Depress Ethical Feature Less Logical Matter Method More Most One Openly Side Such
The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
IDA TARBELL

Advantage Doubtful Economic Have Been Sobriety
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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Admit Business Country Dealing Declare Employ End Excuse Force Fraud Hard Justify Legitimate Often People Person Privileges Secure See Sly Special Tricks Very Willing
No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
IDA TARBELL

Destroy Only Original Owner Value
He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
IDA TARBELL

Better Choose Common Democracy Fair Fellow Man Open Path Prescribe Secret Sound Way
Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
IDA TARBELL

Become Business Canoonise Hero Like Made Men National Oil Standard Success Trust

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,.

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