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Alfred P. Sloan Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 23, 1875 - February 17, 1966

Topics

Competition Result You Price Accept

At one time, we were asked to play your own man; you're responsible for your own man. And, if you were good enough and kind of a ball hawk, you helped everyone else. Now it's really much more of a team concept defensively than it was when we played.

Jerry West

Good Time Man Team Enough You

My family are happy in Italy. We're first, and I'm top scorer. What more could I ask for?

Mauro Icardi

Family Happy More Ask First Top

It's always hot in Australia.

Angelique Kerber

Australia Hot Always

Do you think states' rights would have disappeared if state legislatures still elected our United States senators? Do you think our United States senators would be difficult to contact if they were named by our state legislatures?

Rob Woodall

Think You Difficult Contact Rights

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.

Robin Sloan

Great American Important Fiction

It's so important for me to do my own stunts. The sense of achievement is so immense. But the studios don't want to take the risk.

Michelle Yeoh

Achievement Me Important Want My Own

People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

Michael Oher

I Am People Me Chance Blind Problem

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

Javier Bardem

Reality Doing Hands You Look Back

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

Don Mattingly

Time Moving Direction Long Long Time

I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Baseball First Over Pretty Painful

There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

Connie Francis

Friend Chance Restaurant Go True

If I ran the world, I would find a way to bring the wealth of human good intentions and corporate good intentions together - to activate them collectively into shared action against shared objectives that produces shared hard, tangible results.

Cindy Gallop

Good Together World Action Wealth