At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.
Yvon ChouinardIf you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, โThis sucks, Iโm going to do my own thing.โ
Yvon ChouinardSurfing 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 could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.
Yvon ChouinardWe've teamed up with some Japanese companies to, basically by 2010, make all our clothing out of recycled and recyclable fibers. And we're going to accept ownership of our products from birth to birth. So if you buy a jacket from us, or a shirt ,or a pair of pants, when you're done with it, you can give it back to us and we'll make more shirts and pants out of it.
Yvon Chouinard