Harvey Firestone Quotes & Sayings

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business. — Harvey S. Firestone

Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.' — Thomas Frank

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. — Harvey S. Firestone

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. — Harvey S. Firestone

When one of the children of his friend Harvey Firestone boasted that he had some savings in the bank, Ford lectured the child. That money was idle. What the child should do, Ford said, was spend the money on tools. "Make something," he admonished. "Create something. — David Halberstam

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal. — Deepak Chopra

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

Success is the sum of details. — Harvey S. Firestone

The way of the pioneer is always rough. — Harvey S. Firestone

I once heard this saying that God keeps breaking your heart until it opens. And ain't that the truth. Think about it. Every struggle, every challenge, every adversity brings you closer to your heart, to your true self, to who you really are. Sometimes you got to be broken down to the point where you feel powerless to discover your ultimate and true power. — Jon Gordon

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

Thought, not money, is the real business capital. — Harvey S. Firestone

I believe in terms of the work that I do, in establishing dialogue about race relations in Latin America, steps on one of the most relevant themes today. — Bocafloja

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. — Harvey S. Firestone

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. — Harvey S. Firestone

Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another. — Alex Morritt

You lie. Worse, you lie poorly. — George R R Martin

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself. — Harvey S. Firestone

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people. — Harvey S. Firestone

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. — Harvey S. Firestone

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman. — Charlotte Bronte