The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain..

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….

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….

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

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

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

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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..