People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.

I'm a New York story.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

So much of design is context.

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

If a man hasn’t found something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery

The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.