Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Remember: if you take bivouac equipment along, you will bivouac.

Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.

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.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

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

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’