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Phil Knight Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: chances, Taking Risks, Talent
“There is no shoe school, so where do you recruit people for a company that develops and markets running shoes? The running track… We and the consumer were one and the same.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: School, Recruitment, History, company, Consumer
“You’ve got to worry about what’s coming up to stay ahead of the curve…”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: worry, Future, Staying Ahead, Curve
“It’s not enough to do good things. You have to let people know what you’re doing.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: kindness, actions, influence, explanation
“I am a man who has always needed heroes.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Man, Dependent, Hero, inspiration
“Make history or be a part of it.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: History, Making History, Be Part of history, historical, Story
“Sports is like rock ‘n’ roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Sports, Rock, Culture, force, Languange, Emptions
“In periods of stress and grief, not only does your mind do funny things, you say things that surprise you.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Stress, Grief, Mind
“Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Dream, Courage, Failing, actions
“I’m Phil Knight, and I don’t believe in advertising.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Advertising, Belief, Pride, Success
“Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Baseball Player, Leage, Big league, Dream, Awakening, Story, Childhood Memories
“The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Trying, Failing, Failure, Try Harder
“It's alright to be Goliath, but always act like David.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Go Big, strength, Courage
“At first, we couldn’t be establishment, because we didn’t have any money. We were guerrilla marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But as we became No. 1 in our industry, we’ve had to modify our culture and become a bit more planned.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: financial, Money, Industry, Growth, Culture
“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: America, Taking Risks, Mistakes
“My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what's good for the shareholders and for the company.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Job, Ideas, Listening, Leadership, Decisions
“I may be over the top on this, but I just don’t want to like my competitors. I want my people to believe that whenever he and our other competitors succeed, we will be less able to do all the things we want to do.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Competitors, Winning, Success, inspiration
“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Rules, Ferocity, player, strategy
“There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.”
— Phil Knight
Tagged: Conflict, Work, Life, Business, Peace, Success, key to success
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