Alfred P. Sloan
United States
23 May 1875 // 17 Feb 1966
Executive
23 May 1875 // 17 Feb 1966
Executive
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The rapidity of technological change makes the search for facts a permanently necessary feature.
My Years with General Motors (1964)
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
Decentralization or not, an industrial corporation is not the mildest form of organization...! never minimized the administrative power of the chief executive.
My Years with General Motors (1964)
Everything possible starts in the organization from the bottom.
'The Most Important Things I Learned About Management,' System (1924)
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
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."
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