Fear of failure, I thought, will never be our downfall as a company. No that any of us thought we wouldn’t fail; in fact we had every expectation that we would. But when we did fail, we had faith that we’d do it fast, learn from it, and be better for it.
There were many ways down Mount Fuji, according to my guidebook, but only one way up.
People, sensing my belief, wanted some of that belief for themselves. Belief, I decided. Belief is irresistible. Sometimes.
I don’t know how long after that day I discovered the Aristophanes play, set in the Temple of Nike, in which the warrior gives the king a gift – a pair of new shoes. I don’t know when I figured out that the play was called Knights.
We spent a few minutes catching up. I told Bowerman about my trip around the world. Kobe, Jordan, the Temple of Nike.
Bowerman was forever griping that people make the mistake of thinking only elite Olympians are athletes. But everyone’s an athlete, he said. If you have a body, you’re an athlete.
When goods don’t pass international borders, soldiers will.
I wanted to win. No, that’s not right. I simply didn’t want to lose.
Someone somewhere once said that business is war without bullets, and I tended to agree. I.
Every runner understands this. Front runners always work the hardest, and risk the most. Long.
No one heard. No one cared. They cared only about the bottom line. Not even the bottom line, but their bottom line. I.
Before running a big race, you always want to walk the track.
Each of us found pleasure, whenever possible, in focusing on one small task. One task, we often said, clears the mind. And.
If my life was to be all work no play, I wanted my work to be play.
Business is no more about making money than the human body is about making blood. Yes you need to make the stuff, but only to serve your higher aims.
When it came rolling in, the money affected us all. Not much, and not for long, because none of us was ever driven by money. 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.
The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. Too.
I do not like stupidity,” he said. “People pay too much attention to numbers.
As for workout clothes, Bowerman told readers that proper clothing “may help the spirit,” but added that people shouldn’t get hung up on brands. Maybe.
For that matter, few ideas are as crazy as my favorite thing, running. It’s hard. It’s painful. It’s risky. The rewards are few and far from guaranteed. When you run around an oval track, or down an empty road, you have no real destination. At least, none that can fully justify the effort. The act itself becomes the destination. It’s.