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

Sara Blakely

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Sara Blakely
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 27
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Patron Of The Arts
Stand-Up Comedian
Clearwater
Florida
Women
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Empowering

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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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You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
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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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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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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.
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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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I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
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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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Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
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