The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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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 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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Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery.
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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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