Just finished ‘Shoe Dog’, the memoir of @Nike creator Phil Knight
Quick thread of my favorite quotes 👇🏽
Quick thread of my favorite quotes 👇🏽
“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.
Whatever comes, just don’t stop.”
Don’t even think about stopping until you get there,
and don’t give much thought to where “there” is.
Whatever comes, just don’t stop.”
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
“Everyone else bullshits, you guys always shoot straight. So if you say this new shoe, this Nike, is worth a shot, we believe.”
“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen”
“When you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better…
and you’re helping others to live more fully and if that’s business, all right, fall me a businessman”
and you’re helping others to live more fully and if that’s business, all right, fall me a businessman”
“For some, I realize, business is an all-out pursuit of profits, period, full stop…
but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood”
but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood”
“I can’t help but think of my trip around the world.
The river Jordan
Mystical Kobe, Japan
That first meeting at Onitsuka,
pleading with the executives for the right to sell Tigers…
Can this all be a coincidence?
The river Jordan
Mystical Kobe, Japan
That first meeting at Onitsuka,
pleading with the executives for the right to sell Tigers…
Can this all be a coincidence?
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