As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class.
IDA TARBELLOne 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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My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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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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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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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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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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