It's really a full-time job to manage our lives.

Perseverance is the key to starting a successful business.

I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.

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 thought of my mortality - I think about it a lot. I find it motivating. It can be any time that your number's up.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

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