How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.
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Similar Yvon Chouinard quotes:
Other Entrepreneurship :
- I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
- The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth’s most customer-centric company.
- Invest your energy in the things you can control.
- Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.
- How you spend your time is more important than how much you have.
- What’s good for customers is good for shareholders.
- Don’t try to mine gold when you can sell shovels.
- The doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person.
- You’re not born with confidence; it is a skill to learn.
- People who say you will fail are people who have never been successful in their lives
- The problems were never going to stop, I realized, but for the moment we had more momentum than problems.
- Start with the customer and work backward
- Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Living is different from just existing.
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.
- You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.
- Entrepreneurship is a medley of everything old to create something new.
- The world is round, so there is no corner for anyone to lean against
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
- The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
