Phil Knight

I wanted what everyone wants. To be me, full-time.

Phil Knight

If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.

Phil Knight

It’s alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

Phil Knight

My hope was that when I failed, if I failed, I’d fail quickly, so I’d have enough time, enough years, to implement all the hard-won lessons. I wasn’t much for setting goals, but this goal kept flashing through my mind every day, until it became my internal chant: Fail fast.

Phil Knight

Oneness – in some way, shape, or form, it’s what every person I’ve ever met has been seeking.

Phil Knight

Somehow, in meeting after meeting, I held my tongue. Everything my banker said, I ultimately accepted. Then I’d do exactly as I pleased.

Phil Knight

Someone somewhere once said that business is war without bullets, and I tended to agree.

Phil Knight

The best way to reinforce your knowledge of a subject is to share it.

Phil Knight

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Phil Knight

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