I wanted to distance myself from those pasty faced corpses in suits I saw in airline magazine ads. If I was going to become a businessman, I was going to do it on my own terms.

So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources and outlast their customers and go belly-up. And that's why these huge companies have massive layoffs all the time.

I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time.

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