Sara Blakely Quotes
The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it. - Sara Blakely
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.
- Sara Blakely
The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
- Sara Blakely
Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
- Sara Blakely
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.
- Sara Blakely
My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
- Sara Blakely
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.
- Sara Blakely
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.
- Sara Blakely
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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