Henry Timken Quotes
102 Henry Timken Quotes (The Timken Company, The Timken Roller Bearing Axle Company, and Henry Heinzelman Timken, H H Timken)
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If we all thought the same way there would be no progress.
Henry Timken
A desire to do anything is not worth the flip of a coin if it is not backed up by iron effort.
Henry Timken
What we need in the business world is the quick wit to think our way out of a difficult situation, the independence of mind to see a new track, the courage to make a quick decision even if it does not coincide with the general opinion, and the backbone to put it over when we know we are right.
Henry Timken
[On the beginnings of The Timken Company] When we found out how well the bearings were working out on our carriages and trucks, we began to think that the bearing business offered better possibilities than the manufacture of carriages… the ‘tail was beginning to wag the dog.’ Therefore, we decided to get out of carriage manufacture and start making bearings.
Henry Timken
Our vision, ‘Less friction and longer life.’
Henry Timken
All this sounds very easy, but we just about sweated our souls out down at the plant. We almost went broke several times…
Henry Timken
Only in efficiency is there progress.
Henry Timken
[Later revised to] Only in efficiency and precision is there progress.
Henry Timken
The man who could devise something which would reduce friction fundamentally would achieve something of real value to the world.
Henry Timken
Wherever there is resistance to motion we not only have serious mechanical strain but waste effort…
Henry Timken
To be successful a bearing must not only aid the flow of motion, but that it must offer longer life, freedom from trouble, and less frequent lubrication than anything yet devised.
Henry Timken
The greater the resistance the more power necessary to operate.
Henry Timken
The high cost of pushage has always been an important factor in keeping up costs. Anything which will lower it contributes materially to industrial progress.
Henry Timken
To be successful you must be independent.
Henry Timken
If you want to lead in any line you must bring to it independence of thought, unfailing industry, aggression, and indomitable purpose.
Henry Timken
If you have an idea which you think is right, push it to a finish. Don’t let anyone else influence you against it.
Henry Timken
Don’t set your name to anything you will ever have cause to be ashamed of.
Henry Timken
To get anywhere, a man must first see his goal, then lay his plans to attain it, and be prepared to buck up stiffly against every obstruction which threatens his way, beating them back until he conquers them.
Henry Timken
No man can honestly and effectually run two or three kinds of businesses which are not allied.
Henry Timken
To be proficient you must study your own business from the ground up, and you cannot do it when your mind is split up with a variety of interests. Men often get too thinly spread on the map and then blow up.
Henry Timken
A business must be strongly entrenched to stand adversity and the strain of bad weather, and its leader must keep his mind continually centered on his own particular line.
Henry Timken
[On the power of focus and specialization.] In my opinion you can always do your work better by sticking to one job.
Henry Timken
I think a legal education is of value to every man who intends to enter large business. It teaches him to think straight, to plan wisely, to see the adverse side, and realize the obstacles he is going to meet.
Henry Timken
I am much in favor of young blood in a business.
Henry Timken
We need young men to bring us new ideas and we should encourage them to try them out and give them a chance to make good. That is progress.
Henry Timken
[On testing out young men with new ideas.] I believe in giving them a little opposition so that they will have a chance to show their initiative.
Henry Timken
The man who has to fight to maintain his ideas is the strong comer in the business game.
Henry Timken
Young men should train themselves to be… more independent in thought.
Henry Timken
One of the earliest things my father taught us was to look into the future and try to foresee events.
Henry Timken
[On his father] From the first introduction of the automobile he predicted its success… And he bent all his efforts toward devising a bearing which would be his contribution to that phase of progress.
Henry Timken
We stuck to or idea that there was a great future for anything which would reduce friction.
Henry Timken
Like all other pioneers we had plenty of discouragements…
Henry Timken
One of the most important problems in manufacturing bearings is that they shall be uniform.
Henry Timken
Any one can make a good thing once; the point is to keep it up to grade.
Henry Timken
Uniformity in mass production day in and day out means quality.
Henry Timken
Whenever I could get away from the plant I was out looking for business. We did not expect it to come to us.
Henry Timken
We visualized a big future for ourselves at the hands of the automobile manufacturers, and we were hot on the trail of every new inventor of a car.
Henry Timken
This is an anti-friction organization.
Henry Timken
[In 1926] The money end of the business is no longer very interesting but the constructive end of the business is more interesting than ever.
Henry Timken
That’s a tough job to lick, but I think it can be done.
Henry Timken
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