Complexes Quote by Yvon Chouinard

“The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.”

Yvon Chouinard

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At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

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Traveling is my form of self-education.

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