Ida Tarbell Quotes

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

we were raising our standard of living at the expense of our standard of character.

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

[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 destroyed anyone else.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Life is but a collection of habits.

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

... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

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