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

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ide….

Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story neve….

The theory that the man who raises corn does a more important piece of work than the woman who makes it into bread is absurd. The inference is that t….

[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we ….

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

It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement….

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

Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... ….

Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and always must be. It is the….

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

My whole theory for the improvement of society is based on a belief in the discipline and the education of the individual to self-control and right d….

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successfu….

The surprise of the fight on the long day, of the experiments with the shorter one, has been not only that the business could stand it, but that the ….

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….

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 b….

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..

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 imm….

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

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..