The most important step of all is the first step. Start something.

Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

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.

People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I'm doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I'm doing, stores from all over started calling.