3 December 2020 Sara Blakely I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let’s bring joy back to the experience.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely 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.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely When I was 7, I came up with the idea of ‘charm socks.’ My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely The word ‘Spanx’ was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely 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.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, ‘Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,’ and he would high-five me and say, ‘Way to go.’
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely 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.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely 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.
3 December 2020 Sara Blakely 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.
