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Sara Blakely

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 you

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

— Sara Blakely strength

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.

— Sara Blakely change

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.

— Sara Blakely time

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.

— Sara Blakely life

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. 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.

— Sara Blakely life

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.

— Sara Blakely change

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

— Sara Blakely mistakes

What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.

— Sara Blakely fashion

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.

— Sara Blakely war

Trust your gut.

— Sara Blakely you

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.

— Sara Blakely war

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.

— Sara Blakely wit

My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

— Sara Blakely health

I did not like the way I looked in a pair of white pants.

— Sara Blakely

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

— Sara Blakely funny

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

— Sara Blakely sex

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

— Sara Blakely time

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

— Sara Blakely art

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.

— Sara Blakely time

You've got to embrace what you don't know.

— Sara Blakely you

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.

— Sara Blakely self

I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.

— Sara Blakely night

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.

— Sara Blakely men

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.

— Sara Blakely people

Dont let what you dont know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, youre guaranteed to do them differently.

— Sara Blakely you

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 women

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] shouldnt do it. I didnt want to risk that.

— Sara Blakely love

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