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. It… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
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 Image
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 Image
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. It is but another of the proofs which are heaping up in American industry to-day that whatever is good for men… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
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 Image
There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures. — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share
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