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

There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, t….

Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as opposed to hiring clones from ….

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you….

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 thei….

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us t….

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….

Who are businesses really responsible to? Their customers? Shareholders? Employees? We would argue that it’s none of the above. Fundamentally, busine….

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person..

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong..

To do good, you actually have to do something..

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right..

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature..

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system w….

I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the….

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the w….

There's a movement for simplifying your life: purchase less stuff, own a few things that are very high quality that last a long time, and that are mu….

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill..

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now..

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