In 1963, Mary Kay Ash retired from a successful career in direct sales because she was frustrated over being consistently passed over for promotion in favor of men. When the book she sat down to write became a business plan for her ideal company, she and her son Richard Rogers started Mary Kay Cosmetics in a Dallas storefront with an initial investment of $5,000. At the time of her death in 2001, her mult-national company enjoyed annual sales of over $2 billion and her book on management was part of the curriculum at Harvard Business School.
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