Harlow Curtice
Harlow Curtice began his career with General Motors as a bookkeeper and less than 30 years later, he was president of the company. One of the reasons for his stellar success was his own guiding principle of, “Do it the hard way. Do it better than it needs to be done.”
The man who strove to live up to this guiding principle was born in Petrieville, Mich., on Aug. 15, 1893, to Marion and Mary Ellen Curtice. Harlow, however, was raised in nearby Eaton Rapids. While a high school student, he worked for his father as a bookkeeper during summers before going to Ferris Business College in Big Rapids from where he graduated in 1914 with an accounting degree. Immediately after graduating, he went to Flint, Mich., to work for the
