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men who work for you, betrayed the stockholders. You've done everything that a man can't do. You just can't do that kind of thing.” Susanna says that she never knew such language or such ideas or such power of voice was in me. I didn't know it either, as a matter of fact. I was so mad. He was a quitter. He was a rotter. I think of it still and I think how could a grown man do such a thing? I remember using the words to him, “Are you a grown man, Mr. Sloan? Or are you a neurotic adolescent? Which are you? If you're a grown man, stand up and be a man for once.” He was sputtering away on the telephone. He must have been pretty mad too at what I was saying to him. But I gave him everything I had in my heart, and more, I suppose. He must have said twenty times, trying to break into my barrage, “You can't talk like that to me.” Those words are engraved on my memory forever. “You can't talk like that to me. You can't talk like that to me. I'm worth seventy million dollars and I made it all myself. You can't talk like that to me. I'm Alfred Sloan. I've got seventy million dollars and I made it all myself. You can't talk like that to me.” He must have said that twenty times. “You can't talk