Sublime

Pre was most famous for saying, “Somebody may beat me—but they’re going to have to bleed to do it.” Watching him run that final weekend of May 1975, I’d never felt more admiration for him, or identified with him more closely. Somebody may beat me, I told myself, some banker or creditor or competitor may stop me, but by God they’re going to have to

I tried often to copy Woodell’s Zen monk demeanor. Most days, however, it was beyond me. I boiled with frustration, knowing that our pair count could have been so much higher if not for our constant problems with supply. People were crying out for our shoes, but we just couldn’t get them out on time. We’d traded Onitsuka’s capricious delays for a n

fealty—that

I tell the students, is work and study, study and work, hard as we can. Put another way: We must all be professors of the jungle.

George Washington Hill n’était en aucun cas un féministe. Mais c’était un homme d’affaires affûté et surtout, un opportuniste. « Si je peux percer ce marché, ce sera comme ouvrir une nouvelle mine d’or dans notre jardin », déclara-t-il. Il fit alors appel à Edward Bernays, neveu du célèbre psychanalyste Sigmund Freud, également connu comme le père

insisted, or feasible, that a shoe worker makes more than a medical doctor. Change never comes as fast as we want it.