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A Conversation with Alfred P. Sloan—From NBC's Wisdom Series, 1954
Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 -- February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman, and CEO of General Motors Corporation.
Lord Macaulay observed, "It has often been found that profuse expenditure, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundations, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it." Brazilian entrepreneurs have another way of explaining their simultaneous progress and regress: "We get things done while the politicians sleep."
"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."- Samuel Gompers
A Conversation with Alfred P. Sloan—From NBC's Wisdom Series, 1954
Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 -- February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman, and CEO of General Motors Corporation.
Lord Macaulay observed, "It has often been found that profuse expenditure, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundations, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it." Brazilian entrepreneurs have another way of explaining their simultaneous progress and regress: "We get things done while the politicians sleep."
"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit."- Samuel Gompers
