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.
IDA TARBELLCanonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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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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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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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Life is but a collection of habits.
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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices.
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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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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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Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists – with it all things are possible.
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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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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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You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger.
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