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.
IDA TARBELLWe are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.
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It’s always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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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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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 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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I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil … From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. …
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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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