#in

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#avenue #buyers #calling #door #entailed

Everything in our society is so purposeful. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#our #purposeful #society

Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#doing #egotism #new #new york #new york times

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

— Sara Blakely

#dressing #eighties #gave #i #pretty

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#empty #forest #i #into #myself

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. ↗

— Tom Allen

#british #british people #confident #i #i am

I cut the feet off of a pair of panty hose and it allowed me to wear a pair of great strappy sandals. I didn't see lines but the hose rolled up at my feet - and that's how Spanx born. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#born #cut #feet #great #how

I cut the feet out of control top pantyhose one night, threw them on under my white pants and realized that the toning and shaping was perfect and that the hosiery material is thin enough that I could make shape wear out of it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#could #cut #enough #feet #hosiery

I cut the feet out of my control top pantyhose to wear under these white pants and that was the ah-ha moment that started Spanx. My own butt was my own inspiration! ↗

— Sara Blakely

#cut #feet #i #inspiration #moment

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

— Sara Blakely

#find #i #like #looked #them