The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd.
IDA TARBELLA 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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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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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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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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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.
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