There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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I 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.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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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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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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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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