Sara Blakely quotes

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself. (Sara Blakely)
I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department. View quote
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When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school. View quote
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Trust your gut. View quote
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My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail. View quote
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We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends. View quote
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You've got to embrace what you don't know. View quote
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My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years. View quote
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Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning. View quote
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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying. View quote
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My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them. (Sara Blakely)
Everything in our society is so purposeful. View quote
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The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up. View quote
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I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience. View quote
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If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable. View quote
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. View quote
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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art. View quote
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I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire. View quote
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I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them. View quote
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Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States. View quote
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I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. (Sara Blakely)
I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants. View quote
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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants. View quote
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item. View quote
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Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up. View quote
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