They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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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There 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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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the 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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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