Remains Quotes by Ida Tarbell

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

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

Life is but a collection of habits.

— Ida Tarbell

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

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

— Ida Tarbell

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

— Ida Tarbell

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

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

— Ida Tarbell

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

[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

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

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