Sara Blakely Quotes - Page 2

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• If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

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  Moon, Men, Pantyhose

  “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

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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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  Motivational, School, Important

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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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  Courageous, Persons, Despite

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• Embrace what you don`t know

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  Motivational, Entrepreneur, Successful Business

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• Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

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  Trying, Outcomes, Way

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• I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

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  Stranger, Wanted, My Own

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• Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.

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  Scare, Assets, Knows

  "INSTANT MBA: 'If You Do Things Without Knowing How They've Always Been Done, You're Guaranteed To Do Them Differently'" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. July 25, 2011.

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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.

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  Trying, Age, Want

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• Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

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  Perseverance, Successful, Keys

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• It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

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  Jobs, Manage, Full Time Jobs

  "The New American Couple". Article by Lea Goldman, www.marieclaire.com. March 20, 2011.

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• You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.

  Sara Blakely

  Embrace, Knows

  "INSTANT MBA: 'If You Do Things Without Knowing How They've Always Been Done, You're Guaranteed To Do Them Differently'" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. July 25, 2011.

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• Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

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  Inspirational, Female, Powerful Women

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• I'm obsessed with the customer. I am the customer. I really don't think you can go wrong if you don't take your eye off of that. Serving the customer. How does she feel? I feel like the fashion industry has cared a lot about how we look but not about how we feel.

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  Fashion, Eye, Thinking

  "Spanx Dallas Grand Opening: Exclusive interview with Sara Blakely". Interview with Natalie Keinan, www.thefashionhour.com. July 9, 2014.

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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.

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  Family, Luxury, Important

  "The New American Couple". Article by Lea Goldman, www.marieclaire.com. March 20, 2011.

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• The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.

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  Fashion, Ducks, Rebel

  "Smooth Moves". Interview with Alexandra Jacobs, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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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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  Inspiring, Thinking, Let It Go

  "What Sara Blakely Wished She Knew in Her 20s". Interview with Susie Moore, www.marieclaire.com. November 4, 2014.

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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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  Inspirational, Ideas, People

  “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

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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.

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  Years, Fax Machines, Firsts

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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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  Moving, Ideas, People

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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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  Song, Tough Times, Speech

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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.

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  Husband, Validation, Ideas

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• My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

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  Years, Firsts, Revenue

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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.

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  Thinking, Numbers, Mortality

  "How Sara Blakely of Spanx Turned $5,000 into $1 billion" by Clare O'Connor, www.forbes.com. March 14, 2012.

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• When I was a child, my father used to encourage my brother and me to fail. At the dinner table, instead of asking about the best part of our day, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something to tell him, he would be disappointed. When we shared whatever failure we'd endured, he'd high-five us and say, 'Way to go!' The gift my father gave us by doing this was redefining what failure truly meant.

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  Motivational, Brother, Children

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• I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

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  Want, Stilettos, Retiring

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