Sara Blakely Quotes

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

If you don't take a risk then what's the point. We can't keep making films in the same space.

I'm always surprised when you do something very different that people don't get behind you more, because you're always told, "Take chances! Stretch!" And when you do it, sometimes people get really supportive and excited, but sometimes people go at you because you've tossed out the formula.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards proving where you've been. Being wrong isn't in the future, or in the past. Being wrong isn't anywhere but being here. Best place to be, eh?

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.

Do what you haven't done is the key, I think.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

I always do something that I've never done before.

You have to be willing to offend in order to make progress.

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right.

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.

I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.