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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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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.
Sara Blakely
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There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'
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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 made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you 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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Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else
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Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.
Sara Blakely
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Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.
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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 -
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.
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I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
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When something I can't control happens, I ask myself : where is the hidden gift, where is the positive in this?
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I would say where I feel like I'm struggling the most in learning and giving myself permission to fail is in finding the balance in life. There are different aspects to women: there's the mother, there's the working woman, there's the wife, the friend, the sister, the daughter and so just figuring that all out. I continue to want to try new things and give myself permission to not be great at it.
Sara Blakely
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Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.
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I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
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Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away.
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Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.
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Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.
Sara Blakely -
Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.
Sara Blakely
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It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.
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It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
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The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.
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Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn't do it. I didn't want to risk that.
Sara Blakely