Alfred P. Sloan
United States
23 May 1875 // 17 Feb 1966
Executive
23 May 1875 // 17 Feb 1966
Executive
Quotes
Of all business activities, 99% are routine... The entire 100% can be handled by managing the 1% of exceptions.
We know every dollar added to the cost means more than one dollar added to the consumer price. We know a higher consumer price means fewer consumer sales.
Everything possible starts in the organization from the bottom.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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
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
Essays