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Top 20 quotes from Phil Knight
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ABOUT PHIL KNIGHT
American businessman, co-founder and Chairman of Nike, Inc., Philip Hampson “Phil” Knight
has a net worth of $22.3 billion as of February 2015, according to Forbes’ list of billionaires.
Knight, a former University of Oregon track star, founded Blue Ribbon sports in 1964, selling
Japanese running shoes out of the trunk of his car at track meets on the weekends while
teaching accounting at Portland State. He renamed his company Nike after the Greek
goddess of Victory in 1971 and paid Carolyn Davidson $35 to design the company’s iconic
swoosh logo. In 2002, Knight purchased Will Vinton (Animation) Studios, Travis, Knight’s son,
serves as president and CEO of Knight’s stop-motion film studio, Laika. The studio released its
first feature film, Coraline, in 2009 and plans to release its second film, ParaNorman, in the
summer of 2012. The Knight Management Center at Stanford University opened this past May.
The 8 building complex cost a reported $345 million to construct, with $105 million coming
from Knight himself.
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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.
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The trouble in America is not that we are
making too many mistakes, but that we are
making too few.
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You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but
when you show Michael Jordan, you don't
have to. It's that simple.
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I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't
spend a lot of time thinking about my public
persona.
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I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in
advertising.
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We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports
and fitness company. Once you say that, you
have a focus. You don't end up making wing
tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world
tour.
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Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant
cultural forces, both speak an international
language, and both are all about emotions.
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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.
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We could see that he was a charismatic guy
who jumps over the moon and is very
competitive, but nobody could have
predicted what he would become to our
culture.
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At first, we couldn't be establishment, because
we didn't have any money. We were guerrilla
marketers, and we still are, a little bit. But, as
we became No. 1 in our industry, we've had to
modify our culture and become a bit more
planned.
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Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the
world is a thrill to this day.
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I still get real nervous when I go in front of
more than two people.
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A brand is something that has a clear-cut
identity among consumers, which a company
creates by sending out a clear, consistent
message over a period of years until it
achieves a critical mass of marketing.
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Ultimately, we wanted Nike to be the world’s
best sports and fitness company. Once you
say that, you have a focus. You don’t end up
making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling
Stones world tour.
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Play by the rules, but be ferocious
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If you want to spend time saying this is cool,
you’re going to get your ass kicked.
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I do not follow conventional wisdom.
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It doesn’t matter how many people you
offend, as long as you’re getting your message
to your consumers. I say to those people who
do not want to offend anybody: You are going
to have a very, very difficult time having
meaningful advertising.
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Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and
the product is our most important marketing
tool.
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We used to think that everything started in the
lab. Now we realize that everything spins off
the consumer.
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