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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

No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
IDA TARBELL

Destroy Only Original Owner Value
Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
IDA TARBELL

Always Been Handle Idea Injustice Many Misery Must Oldest Reason Scientifically Tell Tolerating Unemployed Way
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.
IDA TARBELL

Been Business Do Experiment Long Shorter Stand Surprise Fight
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
IDA TARBELL

Apply Effective Feverish Figure Medicine More Public Settlement
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
IDA TARBELL

Abonded Against Belong Circle Knew replace Respectable Security Value Whole Force Won
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.
IDA TARBELL

Accept Dangerous Fix Make Man Model More Position Power Rate Refuse Right Tariff Truth Video Work
I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
IDA TARBELL

Fundamental Impose Improvement Law never Ordinance Seen Top
It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
IDA TARBELL

Alone Civilized Deny Justice Make Part Women World Wound
As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
IDA TARBELL

Achieve Business Class Consequence Larger Method Practically Sanctified
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
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
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
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.
IDA TARBELL

Ambition Behind Democracy Destroy Initiative Mean Motion National Our Ourselves Perhaps Standardization Standardize Surest Way
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.
IDA TARBELL

Always Bank Business Buy Cheap Control Enough High Manage Money Rule Sell Stock Temporary
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

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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