Shoe Dog A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

I started reading books about people, memoirs, autobiographies, about people who had done extraordinary things... It was everything from Shoe Dog by Phil Knight to Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont to Becoming by Michelle Obama to Open by Andre Agassi.

It's like he talks about how he actually has a room where he keeps his books like a library, but he takes his shoes off when he enters that room because of the wisdom and the weight and the energy and the gravitas he believes books hold.

If you've read Shoe Dog, amazing. If you haven't, make sure you read that as well.

One of the greatest, if you're talking about like one of the near perfect entrepreneur autobiographies is Phil Knight's Shoe Dog, where he's telling the story of Nike.

Have you read the book Shoe Dog? I haven't. I haven't. It's a great book.

Eleven, Shoe Dog, Phil Knight.

And I had just read Shoe Dog by Phil Knight and had all this on my mind about like the legacy and like my newborn son and like what were we doing? And, and you know, what would Unilever be able to offer us?

And I had just read "Shoe Dog" by Phil Knight and had all this on my mind about like the legacy and like my newborn son and like what were we doing? And, and you know, what would Unilever be able to offer us?

I Got a really small part in a really big movie really big shoe Dog starring Channing Tatum Channing Tatum is out right now Channing Tatum plays a I don't he's a veteran. He's a member of the armed services

But definitely go see that it looks it looks hilarious, you know, who doesn't love dogs who doesn't love Channing Tatum? And who doesn't love a bald orange man showing up ever so briefly just to tease you

I would say, Shoe Dog by Phil Knight. So they created Nike. It's very, very, very good book. I think he expresses, actually, it is a biography on autobiography.

For any of you who have read "Shoe Dog", which is the origin story of Nike written by Phil Knight, the book talks about how Nike started and it began by importing these shoes called Onusuka, which would go on to become ASICS.

So you mean like the shoe dog Phil Knight type books? Yeah, I love those.

If you read Shoe Dog or watched Air, you may think you know its history.

But Shoe Dog ends in 1980, and Air... well let's just say it's an enjoyable piece of fiction.

And it turns out (as always) that the real story is filled with far more drama, twists and business lessons than either of those works.

It's the shoe dog of the 80s truly.

It is. It is in many ways.

Yeah, it was a shoe dog.

I listen to the audio book when I am out on my bike rides.

It's fucking awesome. It's all about the creation of Nike.

Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman, who was the track coach for Oregon, who he coached pre Fontaine and then Phil Knight before that and started Nike with him.

It's really interesting. Yeah. And I don't read. So when I read something and it's good, I won't shut the fuck up. It blows you the fuck away. I mean, what do was making shoes in a waffle iron? Like literally. Literally, mate. Literally. That's fucking cool.

One of my favorite books I've read is the autobiography of the Nike founder, Phil Knight. Shoe Dog.

you go read shoe dog you could read like whatever it is you're trying to learn about man

I've read the book shoe dog. I fucking feel night. These people are visionary people.

One of my favorite business quotes of all time was Shoe Dog Phil Knight. Just a fantastic book. I listened because I'm an audiobook guy. But if you want to read it, listen to it. It's just a fantastic listen on kind of the origin, the history of Nike.

And he said something in that book that I'll never forget because it's so true. That business is a war without bullets.

Anyone that's read shoe dog Nike was kind of randomly picked. It wasn't even supposed to be that name.

It's called Shoe Dog about Phil Knight from Nike. I enjoyed it, so I put it in the notebook.