Alfred P. Sloan Quotes

Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.

A car for every purse and purpose.

It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.

The business of business is business.

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Work hard. There is no short cut.

It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

... Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.

The worst is over without a doubt.

Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound.

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.

I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.