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.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.

The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.

I don't get jet lagged that much. I'm so used to traveling and being in different places every day that I can sleep anywhere.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.

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