Yvon Chouinard Quotes About Employees

Quotes about: Employees

• 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.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Healthy, Arguing

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

• While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars in what we called Philosophies. We'd take a busload at a time to places like Yosemite or the Marin Headlands above San Francisco, camp out, and gather under the trees to talk. The goal was to teach every employee in the company our business and environmental ethics and values.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Philosophy, Cash Flow

• Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Independent, Intelligent, Mba

  "Yvon Chouinard on Entrepreneurship". Interview with Amy S. Choi, www.bloomberg.com. June 20, 2008.

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