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You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.

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
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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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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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It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
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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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Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.
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I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
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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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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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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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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 didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
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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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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
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I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
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Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
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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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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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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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