Embrace what you don't know, especially in the beginning, because what you don't know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.

I'm obsessed with the customer. I am the customer. I really don't think you can go wrong if you don't take your eye off of that. Serving the customer. How does she feel? I feel like the fashion industry has cared a lot about how we look but not about how we feel.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

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.

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

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

I think very early on in life we all learn what we're good at and what we're not good at, and we stay where it's safe.