The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition. — 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
