The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
IDA TARBELLRockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
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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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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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He 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.
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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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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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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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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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