47 Quotes by Ida Tarbell

I have often found it difficult to explain myself to myself, and I do not often try.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.