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. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of security won,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
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… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
[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… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
