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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?'

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
Motivational
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Blessing
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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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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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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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Everything in our society is so purposeful.
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You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
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I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
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I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.
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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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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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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 revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
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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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It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
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Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better'?
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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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I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
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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 double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.
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I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.
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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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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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