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

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

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

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.

The root of all true greatness, is humility.

A well-behaved person is not always well-dressed.

My mother had tried to fool me into thinking I was a natural beauty, and I’d believed her for a little while, that is, until I moved to the land of beautiful people.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

That your friend is succeeding does not mean you are failing.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

The destiny of [Google's search engine] is to become that Star Trek computer, and that's what we are building.

You can't speak freely and openly on the most important issue of the day because you're fearful that your closet is going to come and haunt you. I choose to air my closet.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.