#span

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 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 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

#attitude #basically #been #course #failed

I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#boxes #call #chosen #department #favorite

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

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

When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key. ↗

— Carla Bley

#band #banner #bus #elected #france