Phil Knight
Born: 01-01-1938
Phil Knight is the co-founder and former CEO of Nike, Inc., a global leader in athletic footwear and apparel. Born in 1938 in Portland, Oregon, Knight transformed a small shoe distribution company into a sportswear giant. His memoir, "Shoe Dog," recounts the challenges and triumphs of building Nike. A graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business, Knight's innovative vision revolutionized sports marketing and branding.
Book summaries for books written by Phil Knight
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The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us.
I’d tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling.
So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy… just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where ‘there’ is.
The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.
You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.
There is no greater satisfaction than the satisfaction you get from stopping someone in their tracks with a great product.
I wanted what everyone wants. To be me, full-time. All of me.
Life is growth. You grow or you die.
The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting.
When you see only problems, you’re not seeing clearly.
We were young, healthy, and willing to work hard. We were also scared to death.
The best way to reinforce your knowledge of a subject is to share it.