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

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Sara Blakely
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 27
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Patron Of The Arts
Stand-Up Comedian
Clearwater
Florida
Eighty
Aim
Sexy
Gave
Pretty
Eighties
Dressings
Dressing

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Having a mental snapshot of where you are, where you are going, and what you are moving toward is incredibly powerful.
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Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else
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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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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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Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.
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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.
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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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Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
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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'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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It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
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Everything in our society is so purposeful.
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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.
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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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I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
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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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Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
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Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away.
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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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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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