I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
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… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
We've teamed up with some Japanese companies to, basically by 2010, make all our clothing out of recycled and recyclable fibers. And… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
...it's always been difficult for us to lead an examined life as a corporation. I've always felt like a company has the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now. — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
We've teamed up with some Japanese companies to, basically by 2010, make all our clothing out of recycled and recyclable fibers. And we're going… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
Climbing for speed records will probably become more popular, a mania which has just begun. Climbers climb not just to see how fast and… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share
