Harvey Firestone Quotes

#1. 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

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

Harvey S. Firestone

#3. Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.

Herbie Hancock

#4. If you do what you fear, you won't fear what you do.

Gordon Morton McGregor

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

Harvey S. Firestone

#6. I'd like to think that we've certainly strengthened the position of some of our government businesses.

Peter Gutwein

#7. It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.

Ibrahim Babangida

#8. We're a walking billboard ... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

Chandler Parsons

#9. Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

Harvey S. Firestone

#10. I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.

Daniel Gillies

#11. 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

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

Harvey S. Firestone

#13. I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Lisa Gansky

#14. 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

#15. Live, don't know how long,
And die, don't know when;
Must go, don't know where;
I am astonished I am so cheerful.

Patrick Leigh Fermor

#16. 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

#17. If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.

Erma Bombeck

#18. I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them.

Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange

#19. ...it's really more intelligent to be able to simplify things than to complicate them. Even if some people think it makes you look stupid.

Eugenia Cheng

#20. Facts are the enemy of truth.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#21. Success is the sum of details.

Harvey S. Firestone

#22. If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.
And the journey starts NOW.

Jasper Fforde

#23. Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal

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

Harvey S. Firestone

#25. It may just be that a true wake-up call creates a true shift in consciousness. My wake-up call left me no choice. I had to make dramatic changes. Sometimes changes just happen within you, it is the way you approach things. Everything else stays the same.

Cheryl Richardson

#26. I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

Harvey S. Firestone

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

Harvey S. Firestone

#28. The way of the pioneer is always rough.

Harvey S. Firestone