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 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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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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.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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