Sara Blakely Quotes
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I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.
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Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding
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I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
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My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.
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Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
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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.
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Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not not going to do things in my life because of fear.
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If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.
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I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected.
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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.
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Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.
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Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.
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I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.
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Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.
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I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
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I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.
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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.
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I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
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I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
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You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
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If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.
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I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.
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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.
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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.