Sara Blakely Quotes

• I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let’s bring joy back to the experience.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Joy, Society

  Tags in Thinking

• I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Flying, Class

• I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it’s a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, System

• 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.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Body

• I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn’t even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trying, Men

• I’d get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It’s a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Day

• 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

  Topics in Failure

• 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.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Decision

• I think very early on in life we all learn what we’re good at and what we’re not good at, and we stay where it’s safe.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Life

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mix

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

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fashion

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

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• 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

  Topics in Opportunity

  Tags in Gratitude

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

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moon, Man

• 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.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women

• I’ve always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Style

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decade

• It’s really a full-time job to manage our lives.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time

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

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Power

• It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

  Sara Blakely

  Topics in Mistake

Sara Blakely (59)

Birth:	21st February, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Businesswoman

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