No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
IDA TARBELLMy whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right doing, for the sake of right doing.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is ‘unprofessional,.
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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
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It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men and women – contributes to their health, happiness, development – is good for business.
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They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
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The athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.
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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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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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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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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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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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A more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.
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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
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