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Plain and simple, Sara Blakely wanted her bottom to look better in white pants. She was 27 and peddling fax machines to businesses, making cold-call after cold-call, facing way too many slamming doors. But at this moment, standing in her tiny Atlanta apartment, scissors in hand, she teetered on the verge of invention. One-size-fits-no-one pantyhose didn’t do the job, so Blakely lopped off the feet with two, crisp snips. Read the rest of the story on SUCCESS.com.
June 1st, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Thanks for seeing the “other side” of failure and the support that your Dad gave you.
December 1st, 2009 at 7:22 pm
I love this! I saw Sarah’s story some time ago on CNBC “THE BIG IDEA WITH DONNY DEUTSCH “. One of my takeaways was that she was relentless in her pursuit to market/sell her products. “no” meant nothing to her and after seeing this video I better understand the roots of that.