Phil Knight

The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.

Phil Knight

Those who urge entrepreneurs to never give up? Charlatans. Sometimes you have to give up. Sometimes knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn’t mean stopping. Don’t ever stop.

Phil Knight

Though I’ve been known to call business war without bullets, it’s actually a wonderful bulwark against war. Trade is the path of coexistence, cooperation. Peace feeds on prosperity.

Phil Knight

Trade is the path of coexistence, cooperation.

Phil Knight

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

We were mostly Oregon guys, which was important. We had an inborn need to prove ourselves, to show the world that we weren’t hicks and hayseeds.

Phil Knight

What if there were a way, without being an athlete, to feel what athletes feel? To play all the time, instead of working? Or else to enjoy work so much that it becomes essentially the same thing?

Phil Knight

Yes, I thought. Confidence. More than equity, more than liquidity, that’s what a man needs.

Phil Knight

You can’t explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don’t have to. It’s that simple.

Phil Knight

You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.

Phil Knight