Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
IDA TARBELLI 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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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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The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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