Harvey S. Firestone Quotes

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.

Before I became a leader, I thought success was all about building myself up. But then, once I became a leader, I realized that success is about building others up.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

I'm just trying to be the best I can be. I try to surround myself with people who are strong in areas I'm weak. Which is why I have such a big staff.

If someone works with me, I try to take them to the next level.

When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

I try to develop others. I get a great deal of joy out of helping people who, over the years, I've spent a lot of time mentoring - and just trying to get them to another level.

No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.

My drive is other people's success.

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.

The best piece of advice I've received is find a mentor, but also mentor others. You have two hands, so reach up, look for as many mentors as you can to get where you want to go, but never forget that you have another hand, and you have to reach down and lift others up, too.

There is a mutual respect that exists between coaches and players, and ultimately, it's about us trying to help them reach their highest potential.

Success is to improve, grow up, build one team with personality, and then I want to win.

I'll never forget my time at Banfield. It is a club that gave me everything and gave me the opportunity to become a man and a player.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

When you give a child the opportunity to learn, they always give back.

That's part of the process of the longer you play, you can help the guys around you.

I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me.

Accept your teammates for what they are and inspire them to become all they can be.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.