List of Sara Blakely Quotes

I Would Say Where I Feel Like I'm Struggling The Most In Learning And Giving Myself Permission To Fail Is In Finding The Balance In Life. There Are Different Aspects To Women: There's The Mother, There's The Working Woman, There's The Wife, The Friend, The Sister, The Daughter And So Just Figuring That All Out. I Continue To Want To Try New Things And Give Myself Permission To Not Be Great At It.

I Feel That Women Have Been Neglected, Unnecessarily Neglected And Mistreated Personally By The Fashion Industry And Shapewear In That Entire Category Was A Definite Place That We Were Neglected.

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?'

I Think My Story Says That, When Women Are Given The Chance And The Opportunity, That We Can Achieve A Lot. We Deliver.

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.

I Aim To Be Pretty - I Gave Up Dressing To Be Sexy In The Eighties.

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.

The Word 'spanx' Was Funny. It Made People Laugh. No One Ever Forgot It.

I Did Not Like The Way I Looked In A Pair Of White Pants.

When I Was A Child, My Father Used To Encourage My Brother And Me To Fail. At The Dinner Table, Instead Of Asking About The Best Part Of Our Day, He Would Ask Us What We Failed At That Week. If We Didn't Have Something To Tell Him, He Would Be Disappointed. When We Shared Whatever Failure We'd Endured, He'd High-five Us And Say, 'way To Go!' The Gift My Father Gave Us By Doing This Was Redefining What Failure Truly Meant.

I Didn't Like The Way It Looked In White Trousers, And I Couldn't Find Anything To Work Underneath Them.

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.