Ida Tarbell Quote

Standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.


All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography (1939)


Standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of...

Standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of...

Standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of...

Standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to benumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of...