Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible. Ida Tarbell More Quotes by Ida Tarbell More Quotes From Ida Tarbell One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes! Ida Tarbell depressing business hero It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! Ida Tarbell happened revolution awareness A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it. Ida Tarbell lays subjects mind Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world. Ida Tarbell cheerful understanding age We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we produce. As a consequence business success is sanctified, and, practically, any methods which achieve it are justified by a larger and larger class. Ida Tarbell business class art Life is but a collection of habits. Ida Tarbell habit life-is life A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed. Ida Tarbell media intellectual mind [On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets. Ida Tarbell business christian fall 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 and women - contributes to their health, happiness, development - is good for business. Ida Tarbell fighting business men Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the oldest reason in the world for tolerating injustice and misery. Ida Tarbell men world ideas One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms. Ida Tarbell noble heart memories When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men. Ida Tarbell fighting business athlete Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market. Ida Tarbell buying-in oil men The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition. Ida Tarbell war peace mean My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered. Ida Tarbell john-d-rockefeller men believe ... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful. Ida Tarbell economic sobriety advantage There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures. Ida Tarbell medicine data figures The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me. Ida Tarbell abandoned circles chance How 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. Ida Tarbell work sleep children I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world. Ida Tarbell afterlife effort mind
