Yvon Chouinard Quotes

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  How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

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  Positivity, Important, Mountain

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.211, Penguin

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• The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

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  World, Easy, Simplify

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• It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

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  Adventure

  Yvon Chouinard, Doug Tompkins, Chris Malloy (2013). “180¡ South: Conquerors of the Useless”, p.103, Patagonia

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• Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

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  Profit, Happens

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• Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, businesses are responsible to their resource base. Without a healthy environment there are no shareholders, no employees, no customers and no business.

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  Business, Healthy, Arguing

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.159, Penguin

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• The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

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  Spiritual, Adventure, Emotional

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• The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.

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  Jobs, Hate, Passion

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• To do good, you actually have to do something.

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• Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

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  Real, Adventure, Journey

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.174, Penguin

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• We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

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  Selfish, Want, Environment

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• There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

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  Differences, Way, Hopeless

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• Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

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  Sports, Adventure, Climbing

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• There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are multifunctional.

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  Long, Quality, Movement

  "Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard". The Usual Interview, theusualmontauk.com. October 22, 2016.

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• Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

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  Land, Excess, Way

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• You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

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  Past, Living Right, Way

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• If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

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  Entrepreneur, Want, Action

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.69, Penguin

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• Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

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  Greatest Fear, Fear Of The Unknown, Undertaker

  "180° South". Documentary, Drama, Sport, www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.

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  Choices, Educate, Left

  "The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia". Interview with Jacob Gordon, www.treehugger.com. February 7, 2008.

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• Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

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  Hard Work, Technology, Skills

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• Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.

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  Sports, Mean, Over You

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.96, Penguin

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• Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.

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  School, People, Way

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.199, Penguin

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• There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.

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  Pain, Culture, Plight

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.16, Penguin

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• Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

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  Environmental, Doe, Done

  Yvon Chouinard (2006). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, p.90, Penguin

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• The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

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  Trying, World, May

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• I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

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  Mean, Thinking, Climbing

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