Yvon Chouinard Quotes

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

A liberal is a person who kept an open mind … a person who did not always look backward but would look forward to new possible solutions.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Culturally, I think we have operated as if we had the formula figured out, and it was all about optimizing, in its various constituent parts, the formula. Now it is about discovering the new formula.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.

We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems

It's a big question. Where do you begin to change the world?

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible.

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

If everyone has to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

When your back is against the wall financially, creative juices flow.

We must look at alternatives objectively, and not try to fit the future into our present social mould.

I think everybody who really wants to change things has to allow themselves to be angry in a constructive way, and you have to fully understand the thing you're trying to change. We really need to get serious about this now; there needs to be real, effective programs. I think there needs to be a little bit more strategy involved and a little more realism, to be pragmatic and realistic, looking at the way we as women contribute to the problem. Once the second half of the population stops doing it, it's going to end.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

The hero is the one with ideas.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results