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I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.
Sara Blakely
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Sara Blakely
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 27
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Stand-Up Comedian
Clearwater
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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.
Sara Blakely
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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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
It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
Sara Blakely
Everything in our society is so purposeful.
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
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I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
Sara Blakely
I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
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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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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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Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.
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Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.
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Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else
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I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
Sara Blakely
I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.
Sara Blakely
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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You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.
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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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