My Advice For An Entrepreneur Just Starting

I'm Obsessed With The Customer. I Am The Customer. I Really Don't Think You Can Go Wrong If You Don't Take Your Eye Off Of That. Serving The Customer. How Does She Feel? I Feel Like The Fashion Industry Has Cared A Lot About How We Look But Not About How We Feel.

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.

Everything About My Journey To Get Spanx Off The Ground Entailed Me Having To Be A Salesperson - From Going To The Hosiery Mills To Get A Prototype Made To Calling Saks Fifth Avenue And Neiman Marcus. I Had To Position Myself To Get Five Minutes In The Door With Buyers.

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. Most People Attach Failure To Something Not Working Out Or How People Perceive You. This Way, It Is About Answering To Yourself.

Ensure That You Do Things Differently From Everyone Else