Remember: If You Take Bivouac Equipment Along,

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.

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."

We've Teamed Up With Some Japanese Companies To, Basically By 2010, Make All Our Clothing Out Of Recycled And Recyclable Fibers. And We're Going To Accept Ownership Of Our Products From Birth To Birth. So If You Buy A Jacket From Us, Or A Shirt ,or A Pair Of Pants, When You're Done With It, You Can Give It Back To Us And We'll Make More Shirts And Pants Out Of It.

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.