Harvey S. Firestone quotes:

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

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

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

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.

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.

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

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

A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment

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

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

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

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.