At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead… — 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
“Patagonia’s image is a human voice. It expresses the joy of people who love the world, who are passionate about their beliefs,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I… — 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
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
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
