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

— Alfred P. Sloan

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Growth and progress are related, for there is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

Let me deal here with what General Motors includes and with the responsibility that rests on its management.

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

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

Forbes, Forbes Incorporated (1959)

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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