The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
IDA TARBELLI 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 were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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