Phil Knight Quotes

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.

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• A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Healthy
  • Research
  • Economics

• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

  

  Lactantius
  • Live
  • Speak
  • Living

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Moving
  • Opportunities

• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Big
  • Club
  • Straight

• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Value

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
  • Trigger

• All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Saying

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Learn
  • Personality
  • Box

• You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Moments
  • Yourself
  • Ups And Downs

• I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Book
  • True
  • Day

• The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Need
  • Nation

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Song
  • You
  • Should

• Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Good
  • Important
  • Home

• It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

  

  Pat Tiberi
  • Job
  • Support
  • Plan

• Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Politics
  • Vocation
  • Hobby

• Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Different
  • Enjoy
  • Afternoon

• They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Good
  • Long
  • Real

• So without that Canadian invention we were grounded. And so that was a really important and key part of the mission and Canadians should take real pride in it.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Important
  • Real
  • Pride

• Who are you and who am I To say we know the reason why Some are born, some men die, Beneath one infinite sky? There'll be war, there'll be peace, But everything one day will cease, All the iron turned to rust, All the proud men turned to dust, And so all things time will mend, So this song will end.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Time
  • Men
  • Why

• 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
  • Real
  • Proud