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

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 could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

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

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."

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