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Steve Madden

lines on the record: 70
first: 2019-12-23
most recent: 2019-12-23
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“You had this really good salary. Yes, yes. I'm worried. I'm a warrior. I'm a warrior. So, yes, but I just wanted to do it on my own.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, I had taken it as far as I could take it. And I just didn't want to have a boss anymore. It was just time. It was ready for me to Sort of chart my own course I was like 30”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, at some point, I thought about doing it for myself. I was very happy there. But at some point, I thought I could do this.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We sell to Macy's and. Department stores and Sold to the bootlegger. I don't know if anybody's from Washington. I don't know. Anybody remember the bootlegger? We sold all over the country.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would sell them. And he taught me how to design shoes. Yeah, well, you know, there's certain tricks of the trade and knowing what people like and working with different constructions.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Come to work, come sell. So that's what I did. It's like a little wholesale company. And what happened was, I went to work there and we blew it up, man.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are people that said that to me guys my own age, making fun of me for working in a shoe store for sure. My father did not make fun of me. My father recognized that good hard work was good.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's right. I had experience. So it was kind of a famous store on Long Island called Jildor. Which most people know in New York”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It wasn't for me. My dad did me the biggest favor by pulling me out of school. When I say pulled me out of school, he refused to pay another fifty cents for me to fool around in college. So I went to work.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And the thing about this guy was so interesting because he was a young man who was successful and creative. And I never saw that. Usually the people that I thought of as businessmen were like my father. They rode the railroad and they wore those long coats with the hats. Don Dra But anyway, Lance came along. He was this artist, and he designed these shoes, and also the wholesalers that sold him would be asking him for input on designs.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do, but I also like creating stuff. And I like creating stuff to sell. It's always been sort of a core sort of philosophy of mine. I've never been like, oh, that's creative. But, you know, nobody wants to buy it. And then on the other hand, you know, just to sell without any kind of creativity is boring to me too.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I worked in a shoe store. I was in high school, you know, the neighborhood sort of cool shoe store. The guy that started the store went to high school with my brother John.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did. I always did. Yeah, I always wanted to fly first class. I'd be riding in coach. Know, I was like, get me in the front of this plane, you know, kind of thing.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He wasn't a great wrist taker, but he was a smart man. He was a businessman, but he never really made the big bucks because he was very safe, which in a way I admire him because he stayed in, it's easy to criticize people like that. Know, but he was always provided. We weren't right in the middle. I mean, we weren't rich or anything, but we weren't the poorest. But it was like, you know, people got a 10-speed bike and they got Schwinn. I never got a Schwinn.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, my dad was, but you know, he grew up in the depression and he was very limited, filled with fear because he had seen so much poverty. So he sort of capped his upside.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know why. I mean, you know, I guess it was the intersection of art and commerce, you know, was very interesting to me and still is.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, the only difference is that I was a reader. And I loved history. And I used to love to read about the Moguls. I was obsessed for some reason. I was drawn to this thing about Louis B. Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn and these great entrepreneurs that, I mean, at a very young age, it was like drawn to it.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nobody knew that. Yeah, yeah, that was the 60s, and so they didn't really talk about it then. But I couldn't sit still. Yeah. And Yiddish would say, I had spilkis”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was sort of a leader type charismatic, sort of always pretty similar to the way I am now, but I was small and had a big mouth and a little ambitious and a little obnoxious probably.”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not one of those entrepreneurs that thought he was going to be super successful. You know, I was just trying to survive, and I'm very negative and very pessimistic. Unlike maybe some of the guys that you've done, you know, the shows. I'm sure they think that, you know, they...”
2019-12-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Steve Madden: Steve Madden (2018) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT