Who is Tom? There is no Tom. If we sell a pair of shoes today, we give away a pair of shoes tomorrow. Originally we thought of "Tomorrow's Shoes," but I could only fit "TOMS" on the label. I had no idea everybody would want to meet him. There is no Tom; it's an idea for a better tomorrow.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

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

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

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.