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“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
“You are remembered, he said, prophetically, for the rules you break. I”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.”
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“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.”
― Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
― Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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