Before we check the best Phil knight Quotes, Let’s know who he is –
So, who is Phil Knight?
Philip Hampson Knight, popularly known as Phil Knight is an American billionaire and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and currently the chairman of Nike. He also owns the film production company Laika. Phil Knight is the man behind the massive success of Nike. Nike has motivated and impacted lives of millions of people with their popular slogan “Just Do It!”.
Net Worth 2019 – His estimated net worth as of 2019 is $38 billion according to Forbes
Phil Knight Quotes
1st of 53 Phil Knight Quotes
“Fight not to win, but to avoid losing. A surefire losing strategy.” ~ Phil Knight
“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.” ~ Phil Knight
“Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.” ~ Phil Knight
“I do not follow conventional wisdom.” ~ Phil Knight
“The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.” ~ Best Phil Knight Quotes
“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen.” ~ Phil Knight Quotes On Success
“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.” ~ Phil Knight (Nike Quotes)
“Make history or be a part of it.” ~ Phil Knight Success Quotes
“You only have to succeed the last time.” ~ Phil Knight
10th of 53 Phil Knight Quotes
“It’s not enough to do good things. You have to let people know what you’re doing.” ~ Phil Knight
“Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.” ~ Phil Knight
“You’ve got to worry about what’s coming up to stay ahead of the curve” ~ 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 Quotes on Nike
“It’s alright to be Goliath but always act like David.” ~ Phil Knight
“Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they’ve got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.” ~ Phil Knight
“We have to innovate for a specific reason, and that reason comes from the market. Otherwise, we’ll end up making museum pieces.” ~ Phil Knight
“Dare to take chances, lest you leave your talent buried in the ground.” ~ Phil Knight Quotes on Chances
“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.” ~ Phil Knight
“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.” ~ Phil Knight
“I’ve always believed that businesses should be good citizen” ~ Phil Knight
“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.” ~ Phil Knight
“The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.”~ Phil Knight
23rd of 53 Phil Knight Thoughts and Sayings
“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.” ~ Phil Knight
“Perception can be changed.” ~ Phil Knight
“We knew we could fail; we just didn’t think we would.” ~ Phil Knight
“I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I’m real proud of what the company has become.” ~ Phil Knight
“When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.” ~ Phil Knight
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” ~ Phil Knight
“The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.” ~ Phil Knight
“So that morning in 1962 I told myself: 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.” ~ Phil Knight
“When you see only problems, you’re not seeing clearly.” ~ Phil Knight
“I’d tell men and women in their mid-twenties 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.” ~ Phil Knight
“Life is growth. You grow or you die.” ~ 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.” ~ Phil Knight
35th of Phil Knight Quotes
“But 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.” ~ Phil Knight
“Like it or not, life is a game.” ~ Phil Knight
“There were many ways down Mount Fuji, according to my guidebook, but only one way up. Life lesson in that, I thought.” ~ Phil Knight
“Driving back to Portland I would puzzle over my sudden success at selling. I’d been unable to sell encyclopedias, and I had despised it to boot. I’d been slightly better at selling mutual funds, but I’d felt dead inside. So why was selling shoes so different? Because I realized, it wasn’t selling. I believed in running. I believed that if people got out and ran a few miles every day, the world would be a better place, and I believed these shoes were better to run in. People, sensing my belief, wanted some of that belief for themselves. Belief, I decided. Belief is irresistible.” ~ Phil Knight advice from his Interview
“And 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. Luck plays a big role. Yes, I’d like to publicly acknowledge the power of luck. Athletes get lucky, poets get lucky, businesses get lucky. Hard work is critical, a good team is essential, brains and determination are invaluable, but luck may decide the outcome. Some people might not call it luck. They might call it Tao, or Logos, or Jñāna, or Dharma. Or the Spirit. Or God.” ~ 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.” ~ Phil Knight
“I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.” ~ Phil Knight
“Starting my own business was the only thing that made life’s other risks—marriage, Vegas, alligator wrestling—seem like sure things. But my hope was that when I failed, if I failed, I’d fail quickly, so I’d have enough time, enough years, to implement all the hard-won lessons. I wasn’t much for setting goals, but this goal kept flashing through my mind every day, until it became my internal chant: Fail fast.” ~ Phil Knight
“Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.” ~ Phil Knight
“I thought back on my running career at Oregon. I’d competed with, and against, men far better, faster, more physically gifted. Many were future Olympians. And yet I’d trained myself to forget this unhappy fact. People reflexively assume that competition is always a good thing, that it always brings out the best in people, but that’s only true of people who can forget the competition. The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.”~ Phil Knight
45th of 53 Best Phil Knight Quotes
“I refused to even consider ordering less inventory. Grow or die, that’s what I believed, no matter the situation.” ~ Phil Knight
“You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.” ~ Phil Knight
“There’s a kind of exuberant clarity in that pulsing half second before winning and losing are decided. I wanted that, whatever that was, to be my life, my daily life.” ~ Phil Knight
“No matter the sport no matter the human endeavour, a really-total effort will win people’s hearts.” ~ Phil Knight
“I wanted what everyone wants. To be me, full-time.” ~ Phil Knight
“Someone somewhere once said that business is war without bullets, and I tended to agree.” ~ Phil Knight
“How can I leave my mark on the world unless I get out there first and see it? Before running a big race, you always want to walk the track.” ~ Phil Knight
“Every runner understands this. Front runners always work the hardest, and risk the most.” ~ Phil Knight Best Nike Quotes
53rd of 53 Phil Knight Quotes
“We understand the most important thing we do is market the product” ~ Phil Knight
Bonus Phil Knight Quotes for all the entrepreneurs and investors
“Everybody was writing about computers and electronics, but all I really knew about was running. It’s what I’ve chosen to do with my life.” ~ Phil Knight Best Nike Quotes
“We had no capital but we grew.” ~ Phil Knight
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