Harvey S. Firestone

“A business, like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.”

“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.”

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

“Capital isn't so important in business. Experience isn't so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. 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.”

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

“I have never found that pay and pay alone would hold good people. I think it was a matter of interesting them in their work, making them feel that they are a part of the enterprise.”

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

“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”

“Have you ever noticed that the man who is loaded down with the heaviest responsibilities is the man who is the most cheerful and buoyant?”

“The man who is bigger than his job keeps cool. He does not lose his head, he refuses to become rattled, to fly off in a temper.”