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.

I feel like money makes you more of who you already are.

If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

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.

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

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.

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