One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
IDA TARBELLRockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.
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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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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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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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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.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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 truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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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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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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