Phil Knight Quotes

The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?

I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how.

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual?

Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of'.

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'

I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

Talent can't be taught, but it can be awakened.

I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.