"Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE" Quotes
"Shoe Dog" is Phil Knight's memoir detailing the tumultuous journey of founding and growing Nike into a global athletic brand.
business | 400 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
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.
