I 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.
IDA TARBELLIf 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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 inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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