Yvon Chouinard Quotes
Top 37 wise famous quotes and sayings by Yvon Chouinard
Yvon Chouinard Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.
You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.
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.
The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.
At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
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.
Mastery ... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.
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.
The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
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.
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.