[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
IDA TARBELL[John D. Rockefeller] didn’t care about anyone he did anything just to be rich and be the only company standing without any competition. He destroyed anyone else.
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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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Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.
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To denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
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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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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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We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment’s rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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[On dishonest business methods:] … frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other’s weaknesses!.
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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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