It's Okay To Be Eccentric If You're

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.

The Most Important Thing Is To Get The Fish In Quickly And Leave It In The Water. Forget The Hero Pose.

Just Why Is Yosemite Climbing So Different ? Why Does It Have Techniques, Ethics And Equipment All Of Its Own ? The Basic Reason Lies In The Rock Itself. Nowhere Else In The World Is The Rock So Exfoliated, So Glacier-polished And So Devoid Of Handholds. All Of The Climbing Lines Follow Vertical Crack Systems. Every Piton Crack, Every Handhold Is A Vertical One. Special Techniques And Equipment Have Evolved Through Absolute Necessity.

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 Their Resource Base. Without A Healthy Environment There Are No Shareholders, No Employees, No Customers And No Business.

I Drive Old Cars, All My Patagonia Clothes Are Years And Years Old, I Hardly Have Anything New. I Try To Lead A Very Simple Life. I Am Not A Consumer Of Anything. And I Much Prefer Sleeping On Somebody's Floor Than In A Motel Room.