12 Phil Knight Quotes from Books
Hello. This page is a list of 12 Phil Knight quotes from various books. I hope you like and enjoy reading them. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector.
Phil Knight Quotes
Like it or not, life is a game. Whoever denies that truth, whoever simply refuses to play, gets left on the sidelines. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
Life is growth. Business is growth. You grow or you die. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is - you’re participating more fully in the whole grand human drama. More than simply alive, you’re helping others to live more fully, and if that’s business, all right, call me a businessman. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
That’s the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether you like it or not, it will try to define your days. Our task as human beings is not to let it. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
Our time is short, shorter than we ever know, short as a morning run, and I wanted mine to be meaningful. And purposeful. And creative. And important. Above all ... different. I wanted to leave a mark on the world. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
The world is made up of crazy ideas. History is one long processional of crazy ideas. The things I loved most - books, sports, democracy, free enterprise - started as crazy ideas. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
Let everyone else call your idea crazy ... just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where “there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
Have faith in yourself, but also have faith in faith. Not faith as others define it. Faith as you define it. Faith as faith defines itself in your heart. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
Confidence. More than equity, more than liquidity, that’s what a man needs. I wished I had more. I wished I could borrow some. But confidence was cash. You had to have some to get some. And people were loath to give it to you. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -
I’d tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. 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. - Shoe Dog book by Phil Knight -