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. Sloan Copy Share Image
Some have an idea that the reason we in this country discard things so readily is because we have so much. The facts are exactly opposite-the reason we have so much is simply because we discard things so readily. We… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Only in more production and in new production can the American standard of living be increased and the economy be sound. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
[Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market . . . .In my… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back. — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
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