208 Quotes by Phil Knight

Each of us found pleasure, whenever possible, in focusing on one small task. One task, we often said, clears the mind. And.

Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool.

It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.

I tell them about the untapped resources, natural and human, that the world has at its disposal, the abundant ways and means to solve its many crises. All we have to do, I tell the students, is work and study, study and work, hard as we can. Put another way: We must all be professors of the jungle. I.

Life is growth. You grow or you die.

To study the self is to forget the self. Mi casa, su casa.

Perception can be changed.

He’s one of the best storytellers in the history of Nike. My favorite, naturally, is the one about the day we went public. He sat his parents down and told them the news. “What does that mean?” they whispered. “It means your original eight-thousand-dollar loan to Phil is worth $1.6 million.” They looked at each other, looked at Woodell. “I don’t understand,” his mother said. If you can’t trust the company your son works for, who can you trust?

People, sensing my belief, wanted some of that belief for themselves. Belief, I decided. Belief is irresistible. Sometimes.