Feel Quotes

Trust your gut.

Sara Blakely

Tags: Trust Your Gut

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

Sara Blakely

Tags: Art Clothes Canvas

Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away.

Sara Blakely

Tags: Money Make Give

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

Sara Blakely

Tags: Up Pretty Gave

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

Sara Blakely

Tags: Business First Off

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

Sara Blakely

Tags: Fear Because Always

My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.

Sara Blakely

Tags: Now Also Why

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

Sara Blakely

Tags: Experience Society About

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

Sara Blakely

Tags: Work Like Them

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

Tags: Strength You Know

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

Tags: Business Always Even

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

Tags: Things Lot Got

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

Tags: You Because Always

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

Tags: Men Them Make

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

Tags: Time Like Life

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

Tags: Women Money Home

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

Tags: Age Dad Failure

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

Tags: Failure Attitude You

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

Tags: You Who Know

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

Tags: Them Never He

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

Tags: You People Life