Quotes by Sara Blakely

About Sara Blakely:

Sara Blakely is an American businessperson and founder of Spanx, a hosiery company based in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2012 Blakely was named in Time magazine's "Time 100" annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. As of 2014, she is listed as the 93rd most powerful woman in the world by Forbes.
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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 perc...

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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 n...

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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 afrai...

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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

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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 ...

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

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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 t...

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameSara Blakely
  • DescriptionAmerican businesswoman
  • BornFebruary 21, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBusinessperson
  • WorksThe Rebel Billionaire: Branson's Quest For The Best; American Inventor
  • AwardsTime 100