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. …
IDA TARBELL[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!.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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[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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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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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