#or

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#happen #important #make #memorable #mistakes

Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#beginning #business #careful #feedback #forward

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. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#answering #attach #attached #attitude #course

What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#effortless #fashion #i #identify #into

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#been #care #dictator #law #putin

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.' ↗

— Sara Blakely

#coming #coming home #dad #encouraged #fail

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#comfortable #i #i always #invent #joke

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

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

— Ambrose Bierce

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

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

— Tomas Transtromer

#empty #forest #i #into #myself