It's Okay To Be Eccentric If You're

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."

Nature Doesn't Like Empires. It Doesn't Like Accumulation In One Place, It Doesn't Like Monoculture. It's Always Trying To Make Diverse Species. It Wants To Spread Everything Out. And We're Constantly Trying To Hold Everything In.

How You Climb A Mountain Is More Important Than Reaching The Top

Personally, I Would Rather Climb In The High Mountains. I Have Always Abhorred The Tremendous Heat, The Dirt-filled Cracks, The Ant-covered Foul-smelling Trees And Bushes Which Cover The Cliffs, The Filth And Noise Of Camp 4 (the Climbers' Campground), And Worst Of All, The Multitudes Of Tourists Which Abound During The Weekends And Summer Months.

Hiring People With Diverse Backgrounds Brings In A Flexibility Of Thought And Openness To New Ways Of Doing Things, As Opposed To Hiring Clones From Business Schools Who Have Been Taught A Codified Way Of Doing Business.