Sara Blakely Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• What you don’t know can be your greatest asset.

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  Assets, Knows

  "Spanx Opens In Westfarms, And Sara Blakely Talks About Her Popular Shapewear". Interview with Maryellen Fillo, articles.courant.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

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  Class, Flying, Fear Of Flying

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

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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.

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  Mom, School, Ideas

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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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  Running, Believe, Race

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• I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

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  Dresses, Machines, Might

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• I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

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  Karma, Shopping, Giving

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• When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.

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  Tired, Hair, Color

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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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• I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.

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  Inspirational, Empowering, Feelings

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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.

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  Husband, Moving, Validation

  "How to launch a dream business while working full time, by the women who did it" by Sejal Kapadia Pocha, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

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  Clothes, Body, Figures

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• Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

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  Stage, Terrified

  "Sara Blakely: a woman with a great grasp of figures" by Zoe Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

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  Art, Clothes, Canvas

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• I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

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  Sexy, Aim, Gave Up

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• 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.

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  Two, Tvs, Shipping

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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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  Baby, Muffins, Spanx

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• I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

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  Blue, Style, Nails

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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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  Years, United States, Way

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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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  Motivational, Blessing, Stay Positive

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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.

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  Journey, Doors, Fifth Avenue

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• The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

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  Funny, People, Laughing

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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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  Workout, Clothes, Band

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