Harvey S. Firestone Quotes

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

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

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calculations - you have to be very concerned about employees and customers, because that's really what's going to bring you success.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

I did not want to write just another business book.

Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.