Zitat des Tages von Phil Knight:
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.
You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple.
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.
I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.
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.
I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.
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.
I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.
If there's one thing, I've been pretty good at evaluating people.
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.
I think I'm not a natural-born salesman, for sure, but If I have a product I really believe in, I can overcome some of the shyness and get through the things that aren't natural to me.
We took advantage of the running boom, which became the jogging boom, which became the fitness boom... and we've benefited from all of that.
When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.
I know when the Berlin wall went down and I walked into what was East Berlin and saw two big Nike banners - that gave me a chill.
When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.
I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.
