Sara Blakely: “Don’t be afraid to fail.“

In an interview with Entrepreneur.com’s Teri Evans, Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx imparted some familial wisdom: “My dad encouraged us to fail,” she says. “Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn’t have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying.”