Cedric Gonsalves

...don’t know where I am going, I only know where I’ve been.

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@PeterFinchGolf Give me your pick Peter.

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@McIlroyRory This too shall pass @McIlroyRory . See you at the open.

[Iona Stephen @Iona_Stephen]

Re tweet if you fancy a game at the home of golf in 2024 😍🤞🏼

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1971, Phil Knight was teaching accounting at Portland State University.

One day, he overheard a graphic design student say that she couldn’t afford to take a painting class.

Knight paid her $35 to design a logo for his start-up shoe company.

When he saw the design, he said,

“I don't know if I like it, but maybe it will grow on me.”

Knight didn’t have time to fuss over the logo. "We had a deadline," he explains. He had signed a contract with a factory to produce 3,000 pairs of Nike's first shoe. "Production was starting on the shoe that Friday."

Before then, they needed a logo.

“You don’t like it?” Knight’s chief operating officer asked of the student’s design.

“I don’t love it,” Knight said, “but we’re out of time. It’ll have to do.”

Takeaway 1:

It's said that if not for constraints and deadlines, nothing would get made.

George Lucas, for instance, worked on drafts of the first Star Wars for years. "I never arrived at a degree of satisfaction where I thought the screenplay was perfect," he said.

But then he struck a deal with a movie executive from United Artists—"At that point, it became an obligation," Lucas said.

"If I hadn't been forced to shoot the film, I would doubtless still be rewriting it now."

Takeaway 2:

At Nike's IPO in 1980, Phil Knight gave the student who designed the Swoosh 500 shares.

She never sold.

Since the IPO, there have been 7 stock splits. So those 500 shares have become 64,000 shares. At the time of this writing, Nike is at $110/share.

$110/share x 64,000 shares = $7,040,000.

It makes me think of something Robert Greene once told me:

“Above all else, focus on acquiring knowledge and skills. Knowledge and skills are like gold—a currency you will transform into something more valuable than you can imagine."

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[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@HankHaney Because it’s a drunk circus with a bit of golf in it!

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@HankHaney Sorry, but what do you expect anyone to say who is seemingly on a LIV payroll. Can’t agree more with @MattFitz94

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

#panjimgoa #goafishmarket #mygoa #cartooning https://t.co/7qQLcJ540U

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

#goafishmarket #mygoa #panjimgoa https://t.co/O0NME2E6w1

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@ClubProGuy 🤣and a perfectly balanced finish!!

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@McIlroyRory congratulations Rory, what a year you’ve had. Looking forward to a grand slam of majors next year. If anyone can do it, it’s you.

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

Thank you #thericemill for the fantastic #totebags. Get your own at the cafe or by order @thericemill #illustration #mygoa #cartooning #sketching @ Hahndorf, South Australia https://t.co/WkP7SOw923

[Kevin Negandhi @KevinNegandhi]

Not a royal family follower but this story about the Queen is an all-timer.

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@LukeDonald Let’s go Luke.

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

Couldn't be more stoked to have the PM launch a project designed by yours truly.

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

We launched construction of a new Maritime Essential Services Centre, which will host the Fiji Navy’s headquarters and will play a key role in protecting fisheries and improving responses to natural disasters.

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@karenandrewsmp

[Ahsan Mumtaz @asnmumtaz]

@karenandrewsmp , humble request to speed up 887 visa processing time, we have lived through a pandemic contributing to the Aussie economy without asking for any support. All we request is to expedite the processing time for 887.
#887visa #SpeedUpProcess
https://t.co/usPU3uoHEd

[Conor Moore @ConorSketches]

👏🏻 😂 brilliant Al

[Caddie Network @CaddieNetwork]

If announcers covered average golfers🤣

(Tiktok / thatsmyboyjacob)

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@TheGoanPatiala Get this one, it’s the best. Been using it for years now. https://t.co/LoGplpMJKz

[GOLFTV @GOLFTV]

The race to get the winner's ball at the 1937 @PGAChampionship was intense 😳

[Cedric Gonsalves @ceddrico]

@ConorSketches have been waiting for this since two weeks now. We are in big trouble, too funny man.

[Golf Channel @GolfChannel]

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