They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.
IDA TARBELLHow 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.
More Ida Tarbell Quotes
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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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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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In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make.
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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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The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.
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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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[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 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.
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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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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
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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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There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair.
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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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He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.
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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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