The More You Know, The Less You

A Real Capitalist Knows That $10 Given Today Does A Lot More Good Than $100 Given 10 Years From Now.

Just Why Is Yosemite Climbing So Different ? Why Does It Have Techniques, Ethics And Equipment All Of Its Own ? The Basic Reason Lies In The Rock Itself. Nowhere Else In The World Is The Rock So Exfoliated, So Glacier-polished And So Devoid Of Handholds. All Of The Climbing Lines Follow Vertical Crack Systems. Every Piton Crack, Every Handhold Is A Vertical One. Special Techniques And Equipment Have Evolved Through Absolute Necessity.

The Most Important Thing Is To Get The Fish In Quickly And Leave It In The Water. Forget The Hero Pose.

I Wanted To Distance Myself From Those Pasty Faced Corpses In Suits I Saw In Airline Magazine Ads. If I Was Going To Become A Businessman, I Was Going To Do It On My Own Terms.

We Grow By Letting The Customer Tell Us. So When The Customer Tells Us That They're Frustrated, That They Just Got Their Catalogue And We're Already Out Of A Product They Wanted, Then It Tells Me That We're Not Making Enough. We Let The Customer Tell Us Instead Of Creating An Artificial Demand For Our Products. Any Time You're Making Products That People Don't Need, You're At The Mercy Of The Economy, You're At The Mercy Of Whatever Is Going On. So We Tried To Avoid That Situation.