Planneur Romantique #23

“Moquez-vous de la publicité si vous voulez, mais sachez qu'avant de devenir un truc que vous honnissez, un mec comme moi a glissé dans un PPT une phrase de l'un de vos auteurs préférés.”

Shoe Dog de Phil Knight est le pire des livres de développement personnel, à l’exception de tous les autres.
Ses mémoires mélangent citations zen, proverbes africains, extraits de la bible et une certaine forme de bon sens marketing acquis après 40 ans d’expérience.

Longtemps j’ai été fasciné par Steve Préfontaine et Bill Bowerman, les deux autres acteurs principaux de Nike. L’ouvrage revient évidement longuement sur ce ménage à trois. Pour ceux qui aiment ça.

Au milieu des inspirational quotes on apprend plein de choses sur Nike, ma préférée concerne la raison pour laquelle les “Cortez” s’appellent Cortez ; je vous la mets ci-dessous

Oui, c’est en anglais, mais les citations sportives / inspirationnelles fonctionnent mieux en anglais sur vos PPTs.

Onitsuka asked what we thought it should be called. Bowerman liked “Aztec,” in homage to the 1968 Olympics, which were being held in Mexico City. I liked that, too. Fine, Onitsuka said. The Aztec was born.

And then Adidas threatened to sue. Adidas already had a new shoe named the “Azteca Gold,” a track spike they were planning to introduce at the same Olympics. No one had ever heard of it, but that didn’t stop Adidas from kicking up a fuss.
Aggravated, I drove up the mountain to Bowerman’s house to talk it all over. We sat on the wide porch, looking down at the river. It sparkled that day like a silver shoelace.

He took off his ball cap, put it on again, rubbed his face. “Who was that guy who kicked the shit out of the Aztecs?” he asked. “Cortez,” I said. He grunted. “Okay. Let’s call it the Cortez.”

There’s a kind of exuberant clarity in that pulsing half second before winning and losing are decided. I wanted that, whatever that was, to be my life, my daily life.

You are remembered, he said, prophetically, for the rules you break.

All is vanity, says the Bible. All is now, says Zen. All is dust, says the desert.
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I believed in running. I believed that if people got out and ran a few miles every day, the world would be a better place.
You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past. You must forget that internal voice screaming, begging, “Not one more step!” And when it’s not possible to forget it, you must negotiate with it.

Someone somewhere once said that business is war without bullets, and I tended to agree.

The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.

I told myself: Life is growth. You grow or you die.
One task, we often said, clears the mind.
Confidence. More than equity, more than liquidity, that’s what a man needs.

Pre was most famous for saying, “Somebody may beat me—but they’re going to have to bleed to do it.”
the best way to reinforce your knowledge of a subject is to share it.

The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.

“You measure yourself by the people who measure themselves by you.”
“When goods don’t pass international borders, soldiers will.”