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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 Sloan

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ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON ... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY