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.
IDA TARBELLWere it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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I 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.
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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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