HARVEY S. FIRESTONE

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Success is the sum of details.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

Success is the sum of details.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.