“Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.”

“Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your frien...”

“I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach fa...”

“I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My att...”

“I’m a really bad test taker and I ended up bombing the LSATs twice and I was not able to get into a law school, she says.”

“She did the next best thing, she says. She drove to Disney World in Florida and asked if she could play the role of Goofy.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.”

“Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.”

“When you're growing up, I think there's this idea that the coolest people are the ones who are really rude and feverish. But I've come to realize that isn't cool.”

“Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.”

“Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. ”

“I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.”