Embrace what you don`t know

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.

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

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.

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

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

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.