The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
IDA TARBELLNo value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.
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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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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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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.
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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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