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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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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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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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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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap.
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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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