Top 42 Quotes About Ida Tarbell

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

Ida Tarbell

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#2. Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world.

John Corey Whaley

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#3. Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.

Ida Tarbell

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#4. 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

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#5. 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 and right doing, for the sake of right doing. I have never seen fundamental improvements imposed from the top by ordinances and laws.

Ida Tarbell

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#6. There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Ida Tarbell

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#7. It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

Ida Tarbell

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

Ida Tarbell

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#9. For me, the feeling of my hands in the dirt offers a deep, primordial
connection with the earth. When I am working the earth, I am at peace. It feels so right and so good.

Fran Sorin

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#10. One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

Ida Tarbell

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#11. 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

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#12. Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.

Ida Tarbell

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#13. Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.

Ida Tarbell

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#14. I make my own cologne. It's called "Sweat," and it's hard work making it. But I can tell people love it, because they're so envious and jealous when I wear it that they avoid me altogether.

Jarod Kintz

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#15. I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

Garrett Hedlund

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#16. It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible happiness I could ask from life.

Christopher Isherwood

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#17. The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that the men alone render useful service. But neither man nor woman eats these things until the woman has prepared it.

Ida Tarbell

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#18. In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.

Ida Tarbell

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#19. The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

Ida Tarbell

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#20. Life is but a collection of habits.

Ida Tarbell

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

Ida Tarbell

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#22. I came into this world restless despite many appearances to the contrary. Does that make me unique? I doubt it.

Rod Stryker

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#23. I know I'm not an easy She-dragon to. not fear." "I'm not afraid of you, Ghleanna. I've never been afraid of you. To be quite honest. I think you're amazing. I always have. Since the first time you ignored me.

G.A. Aiken

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#24. Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

Ida Tarbell

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#25. Buy cheap and sell high is a rule of business, and when you control enough money and enough banks you can always manage that a stock you want shall be temporarily cheap. No value is destroyed for you - only for the original owner.

Ida Tarbell

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#26. I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the rest of us. There was joy in their work; they were the only ones studying something whose work made them happy. I envied that.

Catherine Hicks

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#27. 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

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#28. We were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

Ida Tarbell

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#29. The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

Ida Tarbell

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#30. If you're not going to do anything, don't do it here.

Dennis Collins

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#31. 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

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#32. You cannot settle a new country without suffering, exposure, and danger. Cheerful endurance of hardships and contempt of surroundings become a virtue in a pioneer. Comfort is a comparatively new thing in the United States.

Ida Tarbell

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#33. Friends, we live in a caffeine world. We think in a caffeine way and we live caffeine lives.

Caitlin Moran

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#34. I've seen countless wars, upheaval, the worse atrocities. I've known hundreds of thousands of people and watched them suffer. And yet the thought of anything happening to you brings me to my knees. Label that however you want.

Donna Augustine

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#35. I wish I believed I'd see my parents again, see my wife again. But I know it's not going to happen.

Tony Randall

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#36. Sometimes your hero is you.

Lindsay Chamberlin

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

Ida Tarbell

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#38. I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.

John Lennon

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#39. A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

Ida Tarbell

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#40. Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Ida Tarbell

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#41. 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

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#42. The quest of the truth had been born in me - the most tragic and incomplete, as well as the most essential, of man's quests.

Ida Tarbell

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