Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.
Sara Blakely
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sara Blakely
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 27
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Patron Of The Arts
Stand-Up Comedian
Clearwater
Florida
Fashion
Effort
Looking
Someone
Look
Looks
Effortless
Identify
More quotes by Sara Blakely
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
Sara Blakely
Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else
Sara Blakely
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.
Sara Blakely
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
Embrace what you don`t know
Sara Blakely
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.
Sara Blakely
I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
Sara Blakely
Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.
Sara Blakely
I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
Sara Blakely
Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better'?
Sara Blakely
You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.
Sara Blakely
Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.
Sara Blakely
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
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.
Sara Blakely
Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away.
Sara Blakely
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.
Sara Blakely
Whatever you can think, you can create just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.
Sara Blakely
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
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?'
Sara Blakely
With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life, my brain immediately says, ‘Where is the hidden blessing?’ In starting a business and growing a business, every day is learning how to manage obstacles.
Sara Blakely