One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
IDA TARBELLA mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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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.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.
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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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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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