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

The more you give, the more you live.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.

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

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.

Allow your team to incorporate giving into their life through their job. Not only do employees stay around a lot longer, they do a lot more good.