[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.
IDA TARBELLThere is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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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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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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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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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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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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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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