Phil Knight

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.

Phil Knight

People pay too much attention to numbers.

Phil Knight

The world is without beauty when you lose, and I was about to lose, big-time.

Phil Knight

We used to think that everything started in the lab. Now we realize that everything spins off the consumer.

Phil Knight

When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete, and in that convergence, in that transference, is the oneness that the mystics talk about.

Phil Knight

When you hired an accountant, you knew he or she could count. When you hired a lawyer, you knew he or she could talk. When you hired a marketing expert, or product developer, what did you know? Nothing.

Phil Knight

Where no idea was too sacred to be mocked, and no person was too important to be ridiculed, it also summed up the company spirit, mission and ethos.

Phil Knight

Why is it always so hard to get started?

Phil Knight