Mary Kay



Mary Kay

Mary Kay Ash’s, she was born with the name Mary Kathlyn Wagner, and she was the maker of Mary Kay Cosmetics. She helped with her Cosmetics that other women succeed.

Mary Kay was born on the 12. May in the year 1915 in Texas and she died in 2001 in the USA. In school she was doing very well and also in debates or other exercises she needed to do, she did very well.

This entrepreneur began with her Cosmetics because in her working places, men had priority over women to get advance.

In more than 30 countries, the Mary Kay Cosmetics are known and used also today. These Cosmetics are bought more than one million times in a year.

A quote and the reason of why she never said her age is: “a woman who will tell her age will tell anything”. She worked in many sale shops before Mary Kay opened her own company. After she quitted, she began writing a book about the problems for women in nearly all working places. Then she began thinking about a good idea to get a successful business woman. She decided to sell products for the facial skin care because in those years there were mostly no companies which were selling products for you facial skin care.

On Friday 13. September in the year 1963, Mary Kay her company started.

With this company, she also wanted to show that woman can also build their own business and also can have the same priority like man.

Some more quotes of her are:

“God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.”

“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.”

More information:

“With assistance from her 20 year old son and $5000 of her own life savings to buy products, Mary Kay's company, Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc., started operating on Friday, September 13, 1963. It is a direct sales cosmetics company. Its head office is in Dallas, Texas. The company manufactures over 200 products in 8 categories: facial skin care, colour cosmetics, nail care, body care, sun protection, fragrances, men's skin care, and nutritional supplements. Animals are not used for product testing. The company won an award from the United Nations Environment Program for exemplary leadership in promoting sound environmental policies within the cosmetic industry. The company has branches in 28 countries. It is the largest direct sales cosmetics company in the United States. Its only rival is Avon. The value of the company is about $320 million. Each year the company makes over $1.5 million in retail sales. There are over 300,000 employees in Mary Kay's company. The company workforce is almost exclusively women. Her son is the company president.“ Resource:

Pierre Omidyar

Pierre Omidyar is born in 21. June 1967 in France and today he lives in the United States of America.

He was the inventor of EBay, so he was an Internet entrepreneur.

EBay is an Internet company, where everyone can buy and sell anything they want to. 1995, Pierre was making an online exchange for his wife.

After a while he found a door out of his garage and put it into this online exchange. Immediately there was someone who wanted to exchange something against it because of that he invented EShop. Microsoft was buying this from him and he works there part time.

Then he opened a exchange shop in the internet called . Echo Bay is a town in Nevada but Pierre said that the name of his company has nothing to do with the name of the city but as he tried to register , then he called his company just EBay because he thought that this name is the second best one. Many people heard this and many people spoke about this shop.

He built his company in USA (Canada) because he saw that the exchangers wanted to have a place where they can meet. As there were much users, he decided that the users need to pay a small auction. Before the ending of the first year, his month income was about 10.000$ cash.

Today he is every time under the first ones of the richest people in the world. He controls also today his company and what happens in there.

A few quotes from him are:

“We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.”

“eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.”

“I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.”

“I've got a passion for solving a problem that I think I can solve in a new way. And that maybe it helps that nobody has done it before as well.”

“What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.”

“When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.”

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