I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
IDA TARBELLThe 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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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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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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