[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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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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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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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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 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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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