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.
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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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn’t considered.
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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 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 have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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 only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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