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.
IDA TARBELLNo value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world.
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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.
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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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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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Life is but a collection of habits.
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Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.
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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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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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