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.
IDA TARBELLPerhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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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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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative.
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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 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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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 have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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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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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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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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