#186 Phil Knight (Nike)

What I learned from rereading Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight. ----Get access to the World’s Most Valuable Notebook for Founders by investing in a subscription to Founders Notes----[2:02] I had an aching sense that 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.[6:18] 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. That's the precocious, prescient, urgent advice I managed to give myself, out of the blue, and somehow mana