There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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.
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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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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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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.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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