Alfred P. Sloan

United States
23 May 1875 // 17 Feb 1966
Executive

It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.

'Modern Ideas of the Big Business World,' Work (1926)

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays