You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.
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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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No value is destroyed for you – only for the original owner.
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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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We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce.
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My 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.
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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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we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.
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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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I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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