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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.

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
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You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
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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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Embrace what you don`t know
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
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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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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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Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
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I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
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Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better'?
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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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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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My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.
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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 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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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 think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.
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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 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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Failures are life's way of nudging you and letting you know you are off course. Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.
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