Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell
Ida Minerva Tarbellwas an American teacher, author and journalist. She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is thought to have pioneered investigative journalism. She is best known for her 1904 book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by New York University of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism. It was first serialized in McClure's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth5 November 1857
CityAmity, PA
CountryUnited States of America
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!
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else -- men, guns, ammunition.
... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
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.
It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!
I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.
Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.