Climbing Quote by Yvon Chouinard

Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.

— Yvon Chouinard

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

— Yvon Chouinard

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

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

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

It's okay to be eccentric if you're rich; otherwise you're just crazy.

— Yvon Chouinard

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

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

Traveling is my form of self-education.

— Yvon Chouinard

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

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

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