Variant: 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 worth while, especially when it is new and different.
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 127
Alfred P. Sloan: Doing
Alfred P. Sloan was American businessman. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
as cited in: Thurman Arnold (2000, 72-73).
New York Times interview, 1935
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 144
Source: Alfred P. Sloan in The Turning Wheel, 1934, p. 331-2: Speech by President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., delivered to representatives of the automotive press at the Proving Ground on September 28, 1927.
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 137
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 10; Published earlier in: Drugs, Oils & Paints, (1939). Vol. 54-55, p. 335
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (June 1940) cited in: David Farber (2003). Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. p. 225
Source: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 512 (2015 edition)
“It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.”
Source: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 18
Alfred P. Sloan in: The Magazine of Wall Street, (1927), Vol. 41, p. 480
Source: Alfred P. Sloan in The Turning Wheel, 1934, p. 343
Alfred P. Sloan in: Industrial Digest and Commidities and Finance, (1925), Vol. 4. p. 16
Alfred P. Sloan. quoted in: John Bourne (2000), Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction. p. 11
Source: Alfred P. Sloan in The Turning Wheel, 1934, p. 332-3: Speech by President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., 1927 (II)