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

The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.

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

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

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.

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

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.