Alfred Sloan executive history

General Manager, Hyatt Roller Bearing Company, 1898 – 1916
President and CEO, United Motors Corporation, 1916 -1918
Vice President, General Motors Corporation, 1918 – 1923
President and CEO, General Motors, 1923 – 1937
Chairman and CEO, General Motors, 1937 – 1956
Honorary Chairman, General Motors, 1956 - 1966

Exerpted from My Years with General Motors, Chapter 6, “Stabilization”
©1963, 1991 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

I recognized that my election to the presidency of the corporation was a big responsibility and a business opportunity that comes to few. I resolved in my own mind that I would make any personal sacrifice for the cause, and that I would put forth all the energy, experience, and knowledge I had to make the corporation an outstanding success. General Motors has been for me a dedicated activity ever since, perhaps to a fault. My becoming president involved few changes in the activities for which I had been responsible as vice president in charge of operations. The work flowed on without a break. I became president under the auspicious fact that many of my basic views had become the accepted policy of the corporation.