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 TARBELLHe 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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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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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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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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