Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up. — Sara Blakely

We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time. — Sara Blakely

It’s really a full–time job to manage our lives. — Sara Blakely

The thought of my mortality–I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number’s up. — Sara Blakely

Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ is my go–to song to pump myself up if I’m having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. — Sara Blakely

We don’t have the luxury of time. We spend more because of how we live, but it’s important to be with our family and friends. — Sara Blakely

I couldn’t figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time. — Sara Blakely

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. — Sara Blakely

I think very early on in life we all learn what we’re good at and what we’re not good at, and we stay where it’s safe. — Sara Blakely

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

I’d never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn’t exist. — Sara Blakely

I feel that women have been neglected, unnecessarily neglected and mistreated personally by the fashion industry and shapewear in that entire category was a definite place that we were neglected. — Sara Blakely

The thing about fashion–it’s like ducks going quack, quack quack. It’s being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. — Sara Blakely

Money is fun to make, fun to spend and fun to give away. — Sara Blakely

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

It’s important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable. — Sara Blakely

When I’m bored or tired of being blonde, I’ll throw on a wig. It’s a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10–all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered. — Sara Blakely

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

The word ‘Spanx’ was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it. — Sara Blakely

Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art. — Sara Blakely

I’ll mix a lot of things. I’ll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head–to–toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents. — Sara Blakely

I aim to be pretty–I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties. — Sara Blakely

You’ve got to embrace what you don’t know. — Sara Blakely

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable. — Sara Blakely