Able Quote by John Van Hamersveld

On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're…

— Hobart Alter

The nice thing about working in surf films so long is becoming part of the surf tribe. Anywhere I go where there are surfers,…

— Taylor Steele

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of…

— Tristan Prettyman

Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son.…

— William Finnegan

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business

— Barbara Corcoran

“A business is like a boat floating on the ocean, with currents moving it one way and the wind blowing it another.”

— Matt Watkinson

Where I grew up, surfing was a way for people to celebrate their love and respect for the ocean.

— Tristan Prettyman

We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building…

— Jeffrey Skilling

People laughed at me for setting up a surf shop.

— Hobart Alter

“We had a lazy voyage, stopping at Fiji and other islands, and finally arrived at Honolulu. It was far more sophisticated than we had…

— Agatha Christie

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

— Marc Newson

In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always…

— Hobart Alter