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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 worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

— Alfred P. Sloan Alfred P. Sloan Jr (1941)

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

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)

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