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Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away.

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Sara Blakely
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 27
Businessperson
Businesswoman
Patron Of The Arts
Stand-Up Comedian
Clearwater
Florida
Spend
Fun
Away
Money
Give
Giving
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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 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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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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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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My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.
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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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Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.
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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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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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Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better'?
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Embrace what you don`t know
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Everything in our society is so purposeful.
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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 didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
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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.
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You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know.
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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 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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