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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.

Sara Blakely

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Sara Blakely
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 27
Businessperson
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Stand-Up Comedian
Clearwater
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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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I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
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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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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 took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
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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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Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better'?
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I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
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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 didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
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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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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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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?'
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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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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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I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.
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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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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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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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