What I Learned From Spanx Founder Sara Blakely
This is how she comes up with non-stop ideas to expand her brand, expand her products, and work on other projects.
This is how she comes up with non-stop ideas to expand her brand, expand her products, and work on other projects.
I hold all of my business meetings while playing ping-pong. It’s fun, people relax, and it creates a memory.
I had to get over 100 prostitutes to like me in five seconds or less. I didn’t do this because I wanted to sleep with them. I did it because it was my job.
Daymond refused to let the opinions of others veer him off his path. He worked hard, stuck to his uncool job while he pursued his passion. And made it work.
Every idea that moves the world forward seemed crazy the day before it became genius.
“Americans don’t understand how insanely expensive it is to live in the U.S.,” Bobby said on my podcast. He sold everything he owned and left the country in 2009. Right after the market crashed. Now he works all over the world.
To think we are special has led to countless religious wars, political wars, economic wars, nightmares among children worried about all the ways the species can end.
My six year old daughter asked me, “What’s so great about the United States anyway?” And I didn’t know what to say to her.
Cheryl Strayed wrote for years before having a bestselling book. She knew the important thing was writing every day.
Sometimes I’m emailing about work at midnight. That’s how habits start. They creep in when my guard is down, when I’m not connected to anything I love.