Fear of failure, I thought, will never be our downfall as a company. Not that any of us thought we w...

Fear of failure, I thought, will never be our downfall as a company. Not 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.

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Phil Knight

American businessman

February 24th, 1938

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