MARY KAY ASH
1918–2001
From an initial investment of just $5,000, groundbreaking businesswoman Mary Kay Ash built one of the largest cosmetics companies in the US: Mary Kay, Inc. Motivated by her own direct sales experience, her aim was to create a “dream company” that would help women enjoy greater financial independence.
For more than 20 years, Texan Mary Kay Ash hosted “home shows” for the company Stanley Home Products, encouraging people to buy its wares. She was such an inspirational seller that she was headhunted by a competitor in 1952; however, she later resigned from her new role after seeing ...
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