Chouinard Quotes
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Chouinard Quotes & Sayings
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You climb to the summit and there is nothing there ...
— Yvon Chouinard
Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change - it's threatening. I thrive on it.
— Yvon Chouinard
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
— Yvon Chouinard
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
— Yvon Chouinard
Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.
— Yvon Chouinard
A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.
— Yvon Chouinard
You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
— Yvon Chouinard
Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.
— Yvon Chouinard
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
— Yvon Chouinard
... the worst thing said about him is that he was uncurious.
— Yvon Chouinard
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
— Yvon Chouinard
Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.
— Yvon Chouinard
The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it's so easy to make it complex.
— Yvon Chouinard
Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac ...
— Yvon Chouinard
The more you know, the less you need. - YVON CHOUINARD
— Scott Jurek
The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.
— Yvon Chouinard
At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
— Yvon Chouinard
Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.
— Yvon Chouinard
Mastery ... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.
— Yvon Chouinard
The more I make the more I can give away.
— Yvon Chouinard
It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.
— Yvon Chouinard
To do good, you actually have to do something.
— Yvon Chouinard
The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.
— Yvon Chouinard
The more you know, the less you need.
— Yvon Chouinard
Work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis.
— Yvon Chouinard
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts
— Yvon Chouinard
You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.
— Yvon Chouinard
True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.
— Yvon Chouinard
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
— Yvon Chouinard
The revolution starts at the bottom.
— Yvon Chouinard
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
— Yvon Chouinard
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
— Yvon Chouinard
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
— Yvon Chouinard
But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
— Yvon Chouinard
