Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.

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

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

The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.