The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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.
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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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[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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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.
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