A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
IDA TARBELLI 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power this story never would have been written.
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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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