Best Yvon Chouinard Sayings
- Profit is what happens when you do everything else right. Else Right
- Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance. Cause
- 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
- During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those… All
- Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac... Along
- We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos… Alive
- 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… Care
- I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous… Athlete
- Is climbing, as a passion and as a sport, better off now than it was in the past? We can do harder climbs now in… Any
- You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe. Climbing
- 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… Each
- 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… Ass
- I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as… Afraid