I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

I'd never worked in fashion or retail. I just needed an undergarment that didn't exist.

Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.

I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.

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

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.