Wariant: 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.
Źródło: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 127
Alfred P. Sloan: Cytaty po angielsku
Źródło: "The Broadened Responsibilities of Industry's Executive," 1936, p. 362
as cited in: Thurman Arnold (2000, 72-73).
New York Times interview, 1935
Źródło: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 140
“Take my assets — but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.”
Alfred P. Sloan in the 1920s, cited in: Thomas S. Bateman, Scott Snell (1999), Management: building competitive advantage. p. 276
“The business of business is business.”
Widely attributed to Milton Friedman, and sometimes cited as being in his work Capitalism and Freedom (1962) this is also attributed to Alfred P. Sloan, sometimes with citation of a statement of 1964, but sometimes with attestations to his use of it as a motto as early as 1923.
Disputed
Alfred P. Sloan in The Turning Wheel, 1934
Źródło: "The Broadened Responsibilities of Industry's Executive," 1936, p. 351; Lead paragraph.
Źródło: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 144
Źródło: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 438
Alfred P. Sloan. quoted in: " Alfred Sloan, Guru http://www.economist.com/node/13047099," economist.com, Jan. 30, 2009.
Źródło: 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.
Alfred P. Sloan, quoted in: Forbes, Forbes Incorporated, (1959), p. 54
Źródło: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 140
Źródło: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 137
Źródło: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 149
Źródło: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 10; Published earlier in: Drugs, Oils & Paints, (1939). Vol. 54-55, p. 335
Źródło: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 48-49
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (June 1940) cited in: David Farber (2003). Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors. p. 225
Źródło: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 13-14, as cited in: William Pelfrey (2006), Billy, Alfred, and General Motors: The Story of Two Unique Men, a Legendary Company, and a Remarkable Time in American History. p. 30-31; Sloan describing the Hyatt roller bearing product;
Źródło: Alfred P. Sloan in The Turning Wheel, 1934, p. 210. Sloan in his Proving Ground address in 1927 to automobile editors, in discussing the so-called saturation point.
Źródło: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 512 (2015 edition)
Źródło: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 15 (2015 edition)
“It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.”
Źródło: Adventures of a White-Collar Man. 1941, p. 18
Źródło: Alfred P. Sloan in The Turning Wheel, 1934, p. 185-6; Retrospective vein President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., addressing the automobile editors of American newspapers at the Proving Ground at Milford, Michigan in 1927.
Źródło: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 48
Alfred P. Sloan (1936); Cited in: " OBITUARY : Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Dead at 90; G.M. Leader and Philanthropist http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0523.html," the New York Times, February 18, 1966. This article comments:
Toward the end of the year [1936] Mr. Sloan made a substantial foray into philanthropy by endowing the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with $10-million.
Źródło: "The Broadened Responsibilities of Industry's Executive," 1936, p. 358; Also in Sloan & Sparkes (1941, 145); Partly cited in: Roland Marchand (1997, p. 83)
Alfred P. Sloan, in: General Motors, News and Views. (1945), p. 1;
Źródło: My Years with General Motors, 1963, p. 37