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Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.
The final act of business judgment is intuitive.
[Could] motor cars could be produced [in a country like Germany] and sold in competition in the American market ... In my opinion it is impossible to reach the conclusion that competition from without can ever be any factor whatsoever?
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It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.
I have never issued an order since I have been the operating head of the corporation.
Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.
Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.
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.
The business of business is business.
Advanced engineering always, like advanced everything else, brings down upon it the discredit of ridicule of minds who cannot see so far.
The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.
There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.
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.
It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.
Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.
