Alfred P. Sloan

United States
23 May 1875 // 17 Feb 1966
Executive

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)

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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