One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had t…

Yvon Chouinard
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One thing I did not want to change, even if we got serious, work had to be enjoyable on a daily basis. We all had to come to work on the balls of our feet and go up the stairs two at a time. ✨ Yvon Chouinard (2016). Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual, p.69, Penguin
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