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Yvon Chouinard

"Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when youâ€™re right on the edge, but you donâ€™t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to â€˜have it all,â€™ the sooner it will die."

Source : Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.96, Penguin

Yvon Chouinard

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“Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.”
“For some time there was a widely held notion (zealously fostered by the daily press) to the effect that the 'thinking ocean' of Solaris was a gigantic brain, prodigiously well-developed and several million years in advance of our own civilization, a sort of 'cosmic yogi', a sage, a symbol of omniscience, which had long ago understood the vanity of all action and for this reason had retreated into an unbreakable silence.”
“Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.”
“People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who canâ€™t”

Source : Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.284, Soho Press
“Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.”
“He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.”
“Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle.”
“Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.92, Bloomsbury Publishing

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