A quote from Mary Kay Ash that she had told the other saleswomen at her seminars was, “It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.” This quote was one of the many she would tell her beauty consultants at their annual seminars. This quote almost seems to tell her whole life story in a simple 9 word phrase. Many women have heard of the company Mary Kay. A makeup and skincare company that is sold by Beauty Consultants around the world. Many have seen the stickers on cars or even seen pink cadillacs, but there is a reason for this company.
Mary Kathlyn Wagner was born in Hot Wells, Texas on May 12, 1918. Growing up, her father was ill with tuberculosis, so her mother worked 14 hours a day at a local restaurant leaving her to do some chores
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She sold her products at at-house parties, like at Stanley, as well as other events. She treated all of her saleswomen as her “daughters”. She then expanded to countries like Australia, South America, Asia, and Europe. Her saleswomen were also known as “Beauty Consultants”. She would reward her Beauty Consultants with gifts such as diamond jewelry, five star vacations, and pink cadillacs for the top sellers. Mary Kay decided on the pink cadillac as a gift every purchasing one for herself. In other countries as it expanded, the pink cadillac is actually a pink Toyota in Taiwan and a pink Mercedes in …show more content…
Her autobiography, “Mary Kay” sold millions of copies and were translated into many different languages. Her book, “Mary Kay on People Management”, was another bestseller and was used in business classes at the Harvard Business School. Her third book, “You Can Have it All” was also a bestseller after a few weeks of being released.
Mary Kay won many awards. In 1976, she earned the Hall of Fame Award from the Direct Selling Association. In 1978, she won the award of Cosmetic Career Woman of the Year Award by Cosmetics Career Women, Inc. as well as the Horatio Alger Distinguished American Citizens Award from Horatio Alger Association. In 1986, she was among other women entrepreneurs that were featured in the National Federation of Independent Businesses Report as well as being honored by President Reagan. Her son, Richard, became CEO of the company and she retired and became part of the chairman emeritus for the company.
Mary Kay married Melville Ash in 1966. He unfortunately passed away from cancer in 1980 from cancer. Due to this, in 1996, Mary Kay started the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation. This foundation raises money to fight against domestic violence and cancers that affect women such as breast and ovarian. Mary Kay stayed in Dallas until her death in
Ruth Posner is one of the many few holocaust survivors and a great dancer, choreographer and actress. Ruth was born on April 20, 1933, in Warsaw. She was raised in a Jewish family with her parents, but went to a Catholic school. At home, she spoke Polish. Ruth suddenly started hearing offensive comments by some of her close Polish Catholic friends. They said things like “you killed Christ.” It was an incredible shock.” That was just the beginning. By the time she was just 12, and the Second World War was underway, Ruth had lost both her parents and her world as she knew it. She was in the middle of the Holocaust.
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
Lana Lanetta was born and grew up in the quaint town of Ogre, Latvia. Coming from a blue-collar family, she marches to the beat of her own drum and has achieved the American dream and beyond. Don’t let her certification in gardening fool you, she is anything but a girly girl and She had no time to try to conform to anyone’s standards, early on she began to shape her own future, working her way up from a street janitor to becoming an adept artist. In her youth she was incredibly active, contributing to her amazing figure that she still maintains today, getting great aerobic workouts from soccer and gymnastics. Extracurricular activities aside, sewing has always been an enduring passion that has stayed near and dear to her heart. Despite her
Mary Wade, born on the 5th of October 1777 was the youngest convict to be sent to Australia. Before her life as a convict, she would sweep and beg on the streets of London to make her living.
An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
Lillian Vernon has not relied on demographics to sell her products to the public. Instead, her secret to success lies in womens intuition. The lean seat-of-the-pants operation she prefers makes her company tremendously agile. For example, in 1985, Lillian spied the cacooning trend and immediately put a furniture specialty catalog together. She got the trend right
Mary Kay Ash worked hard her entire live. When she was only seven years old, her father came home from the institution he had been staying at since he had contracted tuberculosis. She was the youngest of four children, but ended up taking care of her father so her mother could continue working. She had to go to school, clean the house and cook dinner, which left her with little time to be an average seven-year old. She would talk to her mother every day on the phone to get instructions on how to cook dinner and her mother always took the time to answer any questions she might have. "You can do it!" her mother would say. (Ash, Mary Kay 10) It was these words that became the motto of the Mary Kay Cosmetics Corporation.
Mary Kay was founded on having a higher purpose to allow women everywhere to find their own personal and financial success. Their belief is that any woman can build their own business that will benefit their lives free of any restrictions. The company gives women the potential to become independ...
Another example of a successful woman is Jane Iredale, founder and president of Iredale Mineral Cosmetics. Jane Iredale introduced the full line of cosmetics, she wanted to create cosmetics that were beneficial to the skin. In order to make her products the best, she collaborated with make up artist, dermatologist, and plastic surgeons in the production (“Beauty”). These two women are great icons of the Beauty World, many people look up to them, and hope to accomplish things like they did.... ...
Mary Mahoney was a member of the Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States and Canada, now known as the American Nurses Association (ANA) since 1896. (Webster, Raymond B, 1999) She was also one of the first members of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) which was a minority nursing organizations that was focused on equality for African-American nurses comparable to that of non minority nurses. Mary was named chaplain of the organization and was later named a lifetime member. After her death on January 4, 1926 from breast cancer the National Association of Colored Graduates Nurses named an award in honor of Mary Eliza Mahoney, after the NACGN was disbanded in 1951 the American Nurses Association continued the Mary Eliza Mahoney award.
She was 86 when she passed away. Hse had five children and many grandchildren” (“Rosie the
Mary Kay Cosmetics is a company known for providing women with exceptional opportunities for professional achievement and economic success and rewarding women for their success. Mary Kay Cosmetics uses several programs to motivate, recognize, and develop its beauty consultants, which include recognition in a monthly magazine, annual events, gifts and prizes and most importantly, financial incentives. At the heart of the financial incentives Mary Kay provides is the three car programs offered to beauty consultants at different stages of their career. The car programs have proven to be effective motivators; however the costs to the company have skyrocketed as the number of car winners as a percentage of beauty consultants has doubled, despite increases in program qualification requirements. The VIP car program is the main cause of concern for May Kay because of the large number of leased VIP cars, high interest rates and insurance premiums, and large losses on cars in service for short periods of time. Mary Kay's top management is now faced with finding a solution to rising program costs of their powerful incentive plan while maintaining sales force moral and motivation. The key issues that must be considered in finding a solution to the high costs of Mary Kay's Marketing Plan are how beauty consultants will respond to changes in the incentive plan and how implementing the necessary changes will affect the sales force.
For a long time, women’s potential in Science was little to none. However, over the years, it has now changed because of the outstanding breakthroughs and encouraging accomplishments women have done through the years. It is because of them, women’s potential in Science and other realms of studies has now evolved with more understandings and discoveries. It is for the reason of Maria Mitchell, one of the first female astronomers to be recognized in Science, that women’s potential were essentially respected. Her discoveries during her time as a student, a teacher, and an astronomer paved the way for many others, not just in Science, but also for woman’s rights and potential to be seen.
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