I told her that I flat-out didn’t want to work for someone … - Phil Knight

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I told her that I flat-out didn’t want to work for someone else. 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

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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.

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.

I refused to even consider ordering less inventory. Grow or die, that’s what I believed, no matter the situation.

I told her that I flat-out didn’t want to work for someone else. I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I m… - Phil Knight

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