Harvey Firestone in Podcasts
personAmerican entrepreneur and CEO of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, known for strategic business decisions during crises.
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After leaving the farm, Harvey's brief stint as a bookkeeper led to his first real business venture with a man named Jackson selling flavoring extracts and patent medicines.
Having a surplus is the greatest aid to business judgment that I know, Harvey later reflected, and I bitterly know what I'm talking about, for I went through years of upbuilding without being able to accumulate a surplus.
By this standard, Benjamin excelled through three principles that would later define Harvey's own approach to building an empire.
Harvey Firestone learned his most valuable business lessons not from formal education, but from his father, Benjamin, a man he would later call the best businessman I have ever known.
Whether you're navigating technological disruption, fighting entrenched competitors, or building something from nothing, Firestone's principles will give you an unfair advantage.
While others built elaborate organizations, Firestone asked two simple questions that cut through every problem.
That crisis revealed the principles that separated Firestone from every other businessman of his era.
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