Sara Blakely Quotes

With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life, my brain immediately says, ‘Where is the hidden blessing?’ In starting a business and growing a business, every day is learning how to manage obstacles.

Sara Blakely

• Brain
• Blessing
• Obstacles
• Manage

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• I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Think
  • Boring

• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Quality
  • Measure
  • Citizen

• Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Men
  • Job
  • Modeling

• I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Done
  • Situation
  • Random

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Color
  • Battle
  • Monster

• To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Boat

• When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Creative

• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• This is America, not a banana republic.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • America
  • Republic
  • Banana

• I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Movie
  • Happy
  • Nice

• Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Health

• Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words

• I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Children
  • Family
  • Ambition

• I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Age

• There are good examples of companies - Coca-Cola is one - that invested before there was a huge market in countries, and I think that ended up playing out to their benefit for decades to come.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Up
  • Good

• Often, I went in love with some friends in school. And, no, I suffered. Only later, things went better.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • School
  • Friends

• It was always one of my favorite things, the action figures, the video games, when I was with WWE, even though I'm not a gamer. I would literally go out and buy the games just so I could play myself.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Action

• The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Rich
  • Poor

• My view was that government officials could not sit on the board of the central bank, and I am very happy that has been upheld.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Happy

• Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

  

  Elihu Burritt
  • Knowledge
  • Minds
  • Homeless

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life, my brain immediately says, ‘Where is the hidden blessing?’ In starting a business and growing a business, every day is learning how to manage obstacles.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Brain
  • Blessing
  • Obstacles