The greatest competitive advantage is to allow your employees to be part of something. Something bigger than what you're doing.

Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.

I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

I think once you start traveling, you don’t stop

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.