Sara Blakely Quotes

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Sara Blakely

Profession : Businesswoman

Birth : February 27, 1971

In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better.

Sara Blakely

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

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I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

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Where I get my energy is: 'How can I make it better?'

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I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.

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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

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I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

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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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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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My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.

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The thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

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I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

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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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I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.

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I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

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It's the power of the brand. We've never formally advertised.

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My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

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I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

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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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Everything in our society is so purposeful.

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