Steve Madden Quotes

#1. Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

John Herschel

#2. 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.

Steve Madden

#3. So much of design is context.

Steve Madden

#4. The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?

Jonathan Franzen

#5. 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.

Steve Madden

#6. I've been making shoes my whole life.

Steve Madden

#7. I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There's nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.

Sanaa Lathan

#8. You need to define yourself in the marketplace.

Steve Madden

#9. I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

Steve Madden

#10. I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.

Steve Madden

#11. I'm a New York story.

Steve Madden

#12. I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

Lorrie Moore

#13. We have to learn how to stop being afraid of people who are different than us, who are supposedly our enemies. We are taught that our enemies are there, not that people want to live in peace. They don't want to fight. They just want to live and enjoy life and accomplish things.

Eytan Fox

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

Steve Madden

#15. I'd like to work with Damien Hirst.

Steve Madden

#16. Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

Marco Rubio

#17. You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Steve Madden

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

Steve Madden

#19. I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Rob Gronkowski

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

Steve Madden

#21. Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Anne Lamott

#22. 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.

Steve Madden

#23. We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.

Dorothy Gilman

#24. We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

Michael K. Simpson

#25. God, in addition to everything else, also created intelligence and to use it is not a sin.

Gregoire De Kalbermatten

#26. I don't make music for the eyes, I make music for the ears.

Adele