Amar Bose
Indian American academic entrepreneur
Alfred P. Sloan
American businessman (1875-1966)
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was an American business executive in the automotive industry.
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Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation. Sloan, first as a senior executive and later as the head of the organization, helped GM grow from the 1920s through the 1950s, decades when concepts such as the annual model change, brand architecture, industrial engineering, automotive design (styling), and planned obsolescence transformed the industry, and when the industry changed lifestyles and the built environment in America and throughout the world.
Sloan wrote his memoir, My Years with General Motors, in the 1950s. Like Henry Ford, the other “head man” of an automotive colossus, Sloan is remembered with a complex mixture of admiration for his accomplishments, appreciation for his philanthropy, and unease or reproach regarding his attitudes during the interwar period and World War II.
7 Quotes by Alfred P. Sloan
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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.
Alfred P. SloanAmerican businessman (1875-1966)
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Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
Alfred P. SloanAmerican businessman (1875-1966)
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If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
Alfred P. SloanAmerican businessman (1875-1966)
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The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
Alfred P. SloanAmerican businessman (1875-1966)
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If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Alfred P. SloanAmerican businessman (1875-1966)
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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. SloanAmerican businessman (1875-1966)
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A car for every purse and purpose.
Alfred P. SloanAmerican businessman (1875-1966)