Ida Tarbell Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Real, Mistake

• 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

  Circles, Chance, Abandoned

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.68, Ravenio Books

• 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

  Money, Business, Want

  Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.269, Cosimo, Inc.

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