It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.