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.
IDA TARBELLThe only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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[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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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 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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