Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

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.

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 made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

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

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.