Harvey S. Firestone

“Take Mr. Ford. He knows every necessary detail of the far-flung Ford Industries; he always knows what is going on, but he never attends to the execution of details. He does not waste time in dictating and signing notes and letters, or in seeing people whom it is not necessary for him to see; he delegates all this to others. He has assigned no executive duties whatsoever to himself—in fact, he does not even have a desk. He has only a few friends and no social obligations at all, and so he keeps himself free to think and to plan and to watch.”
― Harvey S. Firestone, Men and Rubber: The Story of Business

“A business is not a business until it has been hardened by fire and water.”
― Harvey S. Firestone, Men and Rubber: The Story of Business