To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
IDA TARBELLIn walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.
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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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 economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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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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