You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
IDA TARBELLRipe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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The quest of the truth had been born in me – the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man’s quests.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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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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Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices.
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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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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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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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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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