Yvon Chouinard Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; itâ€™s so easy to make it complex.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#World #Easy #Simplify
“Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Choices #Educate
“Everything we personally own thatâ€™s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that weâ€™re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Environmental #Done #Way
“A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Real #Years #Today
“To do good, you actually have to do something.”
-- Yvon Chouinard
“My favorite quote about entrepreneurship is that to understand an entrepreneur, you should study a juvenile delinquent. They're both saying: "This sucks and I'm going to do it another way." You have to want to break the rules and prove that your way works.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Entrepreneur #Want #Way
“If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, â€˜This sucks, Iâ€™m going to do my own thing.â€™”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Entrepreneur #Want #Action
“Hire extremely independent, intelligent, and passionate people, not necessarily "experts." Maybe three or four of my employees have MBAs, and those guys aren't necessarily at the top of the food chain.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Independent #Intelligent #Mba
“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 they drag their ***** to work everyday because they hate their job.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Jobs #Hate #Passion
“I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#People #Political #Trying
“You have to remember this was the '60s, when climbing was dangerous and sex was safe.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Sex #Climbing #Safe
“Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Eye #Self #Realizing
“There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Differences #Way #Hopeless
“Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when youâ€™re right on the edge, but you donâ€™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 business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to â€˜have it all,â€™ the sooner it will die.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Sports #Mean #Over You
“Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Real #Adventure #Journey
“The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Spiritual #Adventure #Emotional
“The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Spiritual #Climbing #Goal
“The more you know, the less you need.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Positivity #Needs
“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 attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Religious #Attitude #Athlete
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Positivity #Mountain #Important
“The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Adventure #Overused
“Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Profit
“The rules of the game must be constantly updated to keep up with the expanding technology. Otherwise we overkill the classic climbs and delude ourselves into thinking we are better climbers than the pioneers.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Technology #Thinking #Games
“Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not aÂ step backward.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Steps #Excess #Sufficiency
“Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Fear Of The Unknown
“TheÂ whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process youâ€™re an ***** when you start out and an ***** when you get back.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Spiritual #Climbing #Gains
“It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Adventure
“Traveling is my form of self-education.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Self #Form #Self Education
“You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Past #Way #Ask Me
“Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.”
-- Yvon Chouinard

#Survival #Steps #Life Is

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