Harvey Firestone Quotes
100 Harvey Firestone Quotes (Harvey S Firestone Quotes)
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A committee organization is just an elaborate means of fooling one’s self into believing that a spell spent in talking is the same as a spell spent in thinking.
Harvey Firestone
A man must have some goal to work for, or he is not likely to do much traveling.
Harvey Firestone
Unless one can see and plan for a year or two ahead, one’s business will not grow evenly and naturally.
Harvey Firestone
The only danger in mapping the future lies in making the plans inflexible.
Harvey Firestone
No end of sales reputations are established by salesmen taking the credit for the public resolutely refusing to be deterred from buying.
Harvey Firestone
Not having enough money is always complicated!
Harvey Firestone
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them and often he has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Harvey Firestone
I notice that when all a man’s information is confined to the field in which he is working, the work is never as good as it ought to be.
Harvey Firestone
I think the best way to settle trouble is face to face.
Harvey Firestone
If you know absolutely that what you are doing is right, then you are bound to accomplish it in due season.
Harvey Firestone
If there is any phase of adversity which our business has not met and beaten I should like to know it.
Harvey Firestone
If anything in the business is wrong, the fault is squarely with management.
Harvey Firestone
Almost every man tries to dodge thought or to find a substitute for it.
Harvey Firestone
Power has to be transmitted before a wheel will turn.
Harvey Firestone
If you ask yourself why you are in business and can find no answer other than, ‘I want to make money,’ you will save money by getting out of business and going to work for someone, for you are in business without sufficient reason.
Harvey Firestone
I believe most men will make good if they find the work they are happy in doing.
Harvey Firestone
The man or the woman who doesn’t accomplish anything doesn’t get much out of life.
Harvey Firestone
Success is the sum of detail.
Harvey Firestone
To do a better business than we did last year really is not much of a credit to us. We must compare what we are doing today with our opportunities of today.
Harvey Firestone
The really valuable man is the one who is willing to take the change of eventually making himself worth a large salary.
Harvey Firestone
An office is essentially a place in which to work. It is not a club and it ought not to be fitted up as a club – else it may turn into a club.
Harvey Firestone
If we make a change in manufacturing or selling methods, will the added return pay the cost?
Harvey Firestone
Vision, as I see it, is not dreaming forward. It is a thinking through with the values ever in mind.
Harvey Firestone
Every change we made in sales methods brought results – and proved the new method.
Harvey Firestone
It is unusual, and indeed abnormal, for a concern to make money during the first several years of its existence. The initial product and the initial organization are never right…
Harvey Firestone
[On taking time out from a business to work on the business rather than in the business] A man ought now and then to get far enough away to have a look at himself and his affairs. Otherwise he gets lost in the details and forgets what he is really doing.
Harvey Firestone
Why is it that man, just as soon as he gets enough money, builds a house much bigger than he needs?
Harvey Firestone
Sometimes it seems that it might be better to go back to those simpler days… But it cannot be done.
Harvey Firestone
One changes with prosperity.
Harvey Firestone
Educating the public to new ways is a difficult task.
Harvey Firestone
People had grown accustomed to steel-shod wheels, and the rubber tire was too radical a change to find ready acceptance…
Harvey Firestone
The big profit in a new idea goes to the man who gets in first on the market, if he outlines the proper program. The public can be educated about the value of rubber tires, and it is the business of the man who makes them to find a way to put them out at a price low enough so people cannot afford not to buy them.
Harvey Firestone
Good credit is one of the most vital assets of business.
Harvey Firestone
To this day the laying on one stone upon another in the erection of a structure holds my attention.
Harvey Firestone
It requires work, hard work, in any endeavor, to achieve success.
Harvey Firestone
Advertising copy was never intended to serve as literature.
Harvey Firestone
If I could get together enough money to open a little factory, I would make rubber tires. [His companion said ‘The idea is right, Harvey, but that market isn’t big enough. How many people are there, do you suppose, who know anything at all about rubber tires? And how many more would be willing to pay for them?’] But I had spent too many wakeful nights thinking over that matter to let him choke me off that way. To me the market was without limit, because the country was full of vehicles, and every man who owned a carriage was a possible prospect. That’s the way it looked to my optimistic mind.
Harvey Firestone
It is one thing to have a sound idea, and still another to pull it over.
Harvey Firestone
[On the financial problems in the Firestone company in 1898 in it’s third year when it was just beginning to turn a profit and the manufacturers of a welding machine were demanding for it’s return.] Very well, we can’t prevent your taking the machine away, but we are not going to let your action wreck our business. If necessary, we’ll build a machine ourselves – a better machine than yours. [He did go on to build a better machine.]
Harvey Firestone
Early in 1901 I ran across an old foundry building in Akron. It was on the outskirts of the town, in poor condition, and really in no particular sense adapted to the manufacture of tires. But it could be bought for $4,500…
Harvey Firestone
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