“It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that ca...” — Sara Blakely Quote

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

“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.”

“I shopped for body shapers for the first time in my life and I was horrified. They were thick - it was like wearing workout clothes and they all had a leg band on one side that showed through the pants.”

“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”

“Everything you can learn from is an opportunity to become stronger.”

“There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.”