In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
IDA TARBELLRockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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