The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else — men, guns, ammunition.
IDA TARBELLI have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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.
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There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.
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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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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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[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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The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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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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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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One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
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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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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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Canonise ‘business success,’ and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!
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