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If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.

You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me.

If all you're doing is making money, you have a luxurious but empty life.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

I don't think you are truly successful unless you are a happy person and are happy with your life. I know many people who are professionally successful but miserable.