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.
IDA TARBELLOne of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.
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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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Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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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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