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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 Friend, Co-worker, Husband Or Wife For Validation, Be Careful. It Can Stop A Lot Of Multimillion-dollar Ideas In Their Tracks In The Beginning.

We Don't Have The Luxury Of Time. We Spend More Because Of How We Live, But It's Important To Be With Our Family And Friends.

Ideas, Even Million-dollar Ones, Are Most Vulnerable In Their Infancy; Don't Share Them With Too Many People. However, Don't Hide Your Plan From People Who Can Help You Move It Forward.

My Revenue Was $4 Million My First Year In Business, Off Of One $20 Item.

I Got A Call From The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Had Chosen Spanx As One Of Her Favorite Products In 2000. I Had Boxes Of Product In My Apartment And I Had Two Weeks Notice That She Was Going To Say She Loved It On Tv And I Had No Shipping Department.