Ida Tarbell Quotes

[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

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• Methods
• Dishonest

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• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

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• I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.

  

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• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

  

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• What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.

  

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• Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.

  

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• [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
  • Methods
  • Dishonest