Traveling is my form of self-education.

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

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

The future of Yosemite climbing lies not in Yosemite, but in using the new techniques in the great granite ranges of the world.

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 business schools who have been taught a codified way of doing business.

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.