Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash was bornon 12 May 1918 in Hot Wells, Texas, United States, American, is Businesswoman. Mary Kay Ash was a famous American businesswoman and the founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. Her strategy of the business was based on Christian philosophy. She asked her employees to give preference, first to God, then family and finally to work. She encouraged women to discover their good sides as mother and wives, while simultaneously also succeed in work. From the age of seven, she not only had to take care of her ailing father, but also had to undertake all household chores like shopping, cooking and cleaning. Her mother always encouraged her by saying, “You can do it, Mary Kay, you can do it”. Later, she made the impossible possible when at the age of 45, after being repeatedly passed over for promotion by male employees, she opened her own company. It started in 1963, with a capital of $5,000, five foundation products and nine sales personnel. Clocking profit within just few months, it continued to grow each year, opening manufacturing units in USA, Switzerland and China. By the time Mrs Ash died at the turn of the century, the company employed more than 800,000 ‘consultants’, who sold $1.2 billion worth of products across the world. Being listed under "The 100 best companies to work for in America” by Forbes Magazine, was another feather in her cap for she actually started the mission to provide equal opportunity for women in world dominated by men.
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She lived like this for more than five years, before she died on November 22, 2001 from natural causes at her home in Dallas, Texas
In 1996, she established the Mary Kay Charitable Foundation
In 1981, her daughter, Marylyn Reed, also joined Mary Kay Cosmetics as one of the directors
The marriage was a happy one and they remained married until his death from lung cancer on July 7, 1980
In 1966, she married Melville Jerome Ash, a retired salesman
In 1963, two months before Mary Kay Cosmetics was launched, she married George Arthur Hallenbeck, a chemist
Mary Kay began her education at Dow Elementary School, later moving to Reagan High School, graduating from there in 1934
Mary Kay was born on May 12, 1918 in Hot Wells, Harris County, Texas as Mary Kathlyn Wagner
