The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the business thrived under it as surely as the man did.
IDA TARBELLA mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain.
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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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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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