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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
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
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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.
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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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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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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
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What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.
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You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
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Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else
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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.
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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?'
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
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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 made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.
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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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