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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
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Alfred P. Sloan
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: May 23
Died: 1966
Died: February 17
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Entrepreneur
New Haven
Connecticut
Alfred Pritchard Sloan
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