Mary Kay Ash: Multiple Successful Business Leaders

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Over the past decade, there have been multiple successful business leaders that affected the world we are living today because their ideas and philosophies. Mary Kay Ash is recognized as one of America's greatest entrepreneurs because of what she had done for people and accomplished in the world. As mention in MaryKay.com, Mary Kay stepped out into the business world in the 1960's to blaze a new path for women around the world. Mary Kay retired as a successful career in direct sales in the beginning of 1963 and decided to write a book to help woman survive and gain confidence in the men business field of work. According to MaryKay.com, Mary Kay dream was to provide women with an open-ended, unparalleled business opportunity, to succeed and

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