Harvey S. Firestone Quotes

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

Like all pioneers I have labored more in faith and hope.

The pioneers get all the arrows.

There's no map for you to follow and take your journey. You are Lewis and Clark. You are the mapmaker.

Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.

We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

Exploration by real people inspires us.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

Somebody has to try it.

Young man, it would be as difficult to tell all about it, all that may occur or be needed on such a journey, as for a carpenter to tell every blow he had got to strike on commencing to erect a house.