Sara Blakely Quotes

“Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.”

“Failure is not the outcome – failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.”

“You've got to visualize where you're headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you're going to be in a few years.”

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

“Most of the reasons we don't do things is because we're afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that I was not going to do things in my life because of fear.”

“Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.”

“When something I can't control happens, I ask myself; where is the hidden gift? Where is the positive in this?”

“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”

“My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed.”

“I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.”

“My first account was Neiman Marcus. I cold-called them just like I had cold-called businesses when I was selling fax machines for seven years.”