#pan

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#buildings #business #card #could #created

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

#consumer #frustrated #get #had #home

There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#companies #doing #escape #going #major

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#concerns #consumers #expense #growing #making

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#first #going #huge #keeping #me

In the next decade, I see Spanx going worldwide. Everywhere. No butt left behind. It's going to be all over the world and it's going to be an aspirational brand that transcends categories. There's so many things we can improve upon and make better. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#better #brand #categories #decade #everywhere

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

— Sara Blakely

#baby #exist #i #muffin #now

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#forgot #funny #laugh #made #people

When I cut the feet out of my pantyhose that one time, I saw it as my sign. I had been visualizing being self employed prior to this happening. It was my mental preparation meeting the opportunity in that moment. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#being #cut #employed #feet #had

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#decided #england #first #go #had