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.
IDA TARBELLIt’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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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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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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