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“The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts”

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

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

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Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a…

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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.

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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…

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

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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…

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The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process…

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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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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…

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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 to accept ownership of our products from birth to birth. So if you buy a jacket from us, or a shirt ,or a pair of pants, when you're done with it, you can give it back…

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I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the…

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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

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I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity…

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What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The…

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

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“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to…

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As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,…

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“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected…

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“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded overcoat. Objects of this kind played a queer part in his secret life-illusion. His stick was like a plough-handle, a ship's runner, a gun, a spade, a sword, a spear. His threadbare overcoat was like a…

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