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Detroit? >> you know, there was absolutely horrendous management. that's one part. the other part for detroit is on the positive side, is when i just did a study on engineers. it's one of the highest concentrations of engineers in the country. they happen to live overwhelmingly in the suburbs and they have some significant immigration as well. i think that detroit region is definitely saveable. i think if the detroit region comes back, i think detroit city may find its role within that region. >> detroit seems to be a story that's sort of at some, in some ways -- opposed to your book and your ...

Her from bombing the l-sats twice and she was selling fax machines door to door for seven years, that made blakely immune to rejection, which was unavailable when she started cold-calling hosiery millses with her footless pantihose ideas. she was developing spanx after hours she didn't quit her job until she invented the product, wrote the patent, started the website and landed neiman-marcus and saks fifth avenue for customers. here's more of my conversation with billionaire entrepreneur, sarah blakely. >> you were telling us about how you finally got the prototype and the patent. there was on...

Savings and my retail sales are well over $500 million. and we're doing great. lot of butts in the world to cover. >> so, ha do you think, when you look back at this, you have no business training, you have no business education. what do you think was the key to your success? >> i would have to say one of the biggest keys to my success was my upbringing and my father and he was very determined growing up to encourage me to fail. so -- >> encourage you to fail? >> yes, my dad at the dinner table. he would ask my brother and me what we had failed at that week. if we didn't have a story to tell h...

Noble and bought a book on patents and trademark and wrote the bulk of my patent and i went back to one of the lawyers that actually later admitted that when i first met with him, he thought my idea was so bad, that he thought i had been sent by candid camera or his friends set me up or something 20 do this to him. but he said i'll do this for $700 over the weekend. which was the legal portion of the patent that i didn't have the training to write. i had already written the abstract and done the drawings, so we did that and i submitted that and you know, then the packaging, i was making on my ...