What I Most Identify With Is Effortless

Most Of Us Want To Tell Our Coworkers Or Friends, Or Husbands Or Wives, Our Ideas. For What Reason? We Want Validation. But I Feel Ideas Are Most Vulnerable In Their Infancy. Out Of Love And Concern, Friends And Family Give All The Reasons Or Objections On Why [you] Shouldn't Do It. I Didn't Want To Risk That.

Every Time I Went On Stage I Was So Terrified I Almost Threw Up.

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.

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.

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.