Alfred P. Sloan Quotes

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

Alfred P. Sloan

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• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Past
  • Never

• I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Career
  • Stage
  • Films

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Kids
  • Desire

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Always
  • Find
  • Racism

• Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Important
  • Space
  • Computers

• I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • Writing
  • Found

• If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Respect

• When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Dog
  • Judging

• That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • People
  • Time
  • Amazing

• We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Women
  • Proud

• 'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Important
  • Way
  • Actor

• My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Page
  • Far
  • Newspaper

• Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Truth
  • Hand
  • Yourself

• Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Different
  • Today
  • Discipline

• Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Science
  • Ocean
  • Fish

• The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • Success
  • Attention
  • Responsibility

• I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • Responsibility
  • Busy
  • Association

• As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up.

  

  Shari Arison
  • World
  • Reality
  • Giving

• A private man has always the liberty (because thought is free) to believe or not believe in his heart those acts that have been given out for miracles, according as he shall see what benefits can accrue by men's belief, to those that pretend, or countenance them, and thereby conjecture whether they be miracles or lies.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Believe
  • Miracles
  • Private Man

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

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Responsibility
  • Management