An edition of Let my people go surfing (2005)

Let My People Go Surfing

The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

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An edition of Let my people go surfing (2005)

Let My People Go Surfing

The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

  • 4.6 (5 ratings) ·
  • 52 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

The long-awaited memoir/manifesto from legendary climber, businessman, and environmentalist Yvon Chouinard, founder and owner of one of the world's most inspiring companies, Patagonia, Inc.Whether you care about adventure sports, the fate of the natural world, or pure brand maintenance and business success, Patagonia, Inc. is one of the earth's most interesting and inspiring companies. For almost forty years, its reputation for unsurpassed high quality, maverick innovation, and long-term environmental responsibility has put it in a class by itself. And everything flows from Patagonia's founder, Yvon Chouinard.Chouinard's creation myth is now an American business legend. As a child, he moved with his father, a French Canadian blacksmith, and the rest of his family to Southern California in the 1950s with little English and less money. He escaped into mountain climbing as a teenager and by his early twenties was among the best climbers in America, making famous first ascents of a number of notorious faces. When he decided he could make better climbing tools himself for less money and when his fellow climbers agreed and clamored for more, a way of life became a business. Some forty years later, Yvon Chouinard still summits peaks around the world (though he now spends more time surfing). Patagonia still makes exceptionally high-quality things, only it now earns more than $250 million a year from worldwide sales, and Chouinard is able to leverage his concern for the natural settings he's spent a lifetime enjoying. His resolve to minimize Patagonia's impact on the environment has led the company to make its famous fleeces out of recycled soda bottles and to donate at least 1 percent of its revenue each year to environmental causes, among many other things.In Let My People Go Surfing, Yvon Chouinard relates his and his company's story and the core philosophies that have sustained Patagonia, Inc. year in and year out. This is not another story of a successful businessman who manages on the side to do great good and have grand adventures; it's the story of a man who brought doing good and having grand adventures into the heart of his business model—and who enjoyed even more business success as a result. Let My People Go Surfing gives ample evidence as to why there have been few more influential companies in American business in the last forty years than Patagonia, Inc.

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Let My People Go Surfing
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
September 5, 2006, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
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Let my people go surfing: the education of a reluctant businessman
2005, Penguin Press
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First Sentence

"To young kid growing up ever dreams of someday becoming a businessman."

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
272
Dimensions
9.2 x 7.6 x 1 inches
Weight
1.5 pounds

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Open Library
OL8875935M
Internet Archive
letmypeoplegosur00chou
ISBN 10
1594200726
ISBN 13
9781594200724
Library Thing
405440
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526153

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