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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

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
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
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.
IDA TARBELL

Competitor Country Dice Doubtful Fair Loaded People Peron Play Race Start Systematically
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.
IDA TARBELL

Another Been Business Contribute Country Development Good Health Heap Men Only Proof Shorter Women
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.
IDA TARBELL

Down Enough Great Knock Market Price Production Fell Quantity Stock Throw
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
IDA TARBELL

Age Cheerful Finest Influence Old One Rip Understanding Useful World
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.
IDA TARBELL

Been Born Essential Incomplete Man Most Quest Tragic Truth Well
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
An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
IDA TARBELL

Another Business Carry Conclusion Excuse Frailty Human Leave Legitimate Men One Pick Pocket Shoulder Weep
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.
IDA TARBELL

Alone Company Conspicuous Done Give Method Practice Public Scorn Standard
The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
IDA TARBELL

Abuse Athlete Commerce Fit Gone Make Men Pursuit Recieve Rule Shall Toward Young
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.
IDA TARBELL

Acumen Auch Banker Business Corner Employ Employed Expose Grocer Ground Method Persistency Secrecy Sort
we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
IDA TARBELL

Character Expense Living Our Raise Standard
There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
IDA TARBELL

Athletic Dice Faur Game Loaded Must Start Table Tolerate World
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
Life is but a collection of habits.
IDA TARBELL

Collection Habit Life One Liner

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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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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