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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

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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Achieve Business Class Consequence Larger Method Practically Sanctified
We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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Art Boast Boost Commercial Craft Cultivation People Produce Wealth
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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Ambition Behind Democracy Destroy Initiative Mean Motion National Our Ourselves Perhaps Standardization Standardize Surest Way
You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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Country Danger Exposure Settle Sufer
The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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Been Business Do Experiment Long Shorter Stand Surprise Fight
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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Achievement Death Defend Every Held Human Indifference Industry Land Moment Necessary Part Rage Sport Sunk War
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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Book Company Corrupt Decide Eye Open People Person Successful Unfair Used Ways Write
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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Acumen Auch Banker Business Corner Employ Employed Expose Grocer Ground Method Persistency Secrecy Sort
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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Become Believe Comment Corrupt Country Final Man Person Still Unfair Use Wealthy
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.
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Company Country Guilty Monopolistic Now Oconcern Oil Power Practice Standard Story Write
There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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Accept Dangerous Fix Make Man Model More Position Power Rate Refuse Right Tariff Truth Video Work
A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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Being Fuller Hamper Human Immediate Life More Movement Way Wring
If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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Down Enough Great Knock Market Price Production Fell Quantity Stock Throw
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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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