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The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.
- Sara Blakely
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I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals. I didn't see lines but the hose rolled up at my feet - and that's how Spanx born.
- Sara Blakely
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I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.
- Sara Blakely
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#Opportunity
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#World
Trust your gut.
- Sara Blakely
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I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
- Sara Blakely
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When I'm bored or tired of being blonde, I'll throw on a wig. It's a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 - all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.
- Sara Blakely
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#Colors
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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.
- Sara Blakely
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It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.
- Sara Blakely
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#Worst
Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.
- Sara Blakely
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#Done
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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.
- Sara Blakely
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#Machine
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I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
- Sara Blakely
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#Failure
#Life
#Nothing
#Way
#Yourself
I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
- Sara Blakely
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I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.
- Sara Blakely
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#Failure
#Lawyer
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#Nothing
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Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
- Sara Blakely
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#Canvas
#Clothes
You've got to embrace what you don't know.
- Sara Blakely
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#Got
#Know
#You
I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it.
- Sara Blakely
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#Feet
#Night
#Perfect
#White
I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.
- Sara Blakely
#Feel
#I Feel Like
#Money
#More
#Who
We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.
- Sara Blakely
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#Butt
#Place
#Time
#World
We don't have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it's important to be with our family and friends.
- Sara Blakely
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#Important
#Live
#Luxury
#Time
My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
- Sara Blakely
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#Dad
#Failure
#Trying
#Week
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.
- Sara Blakely
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#Know
#Strength
#Things
#Your
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