Top 100 Mary Kay Quotes
#1. From the time I was wee big, my mother was one of the first members of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Women going door-to-door and letting housewives have their own business - that was really a breakthrough. It was huge.
Robin Wright
#2. I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.
Jill Sobule
#3. I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.
Mary Kay Ash
#4. Do not desire to fit in. Desire to lead.
- Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash
#5. The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."
~ Mary Kay
Mary Kay Ash
#6. Who needs to hear today that they are not invisible or unimportant to God? - Mary Kay Moody -
Gary Chapman
#7. Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.
David C. Novak
#8. The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return - 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.
Mary Kay Ash
#9. Strew nuggets of affirmation and caring along your path today; you never know whose day you'll brighten. - Mary Kay Moody
Gary Chapman
#10. Mary Kay was the wholesome personification of the American dream. For women everywhere, she brought the impossible dream to life by making it a reality. She was a very wise lady. She was a people person. She was very sensitive to the importance of recognizing people.
Zig Ziglar
#11. I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.
JoBeth Williams
#12. Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.
Mary Kay Andrews
#13. I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated ...
Mary Kay Ash
#14. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.
Mary Kay Ash
#15. What the world thinks of me is none of my business.
Mary Kay Ash
#16. You are the only boss you have. And I want you to be the most demanding boss that you can be. If you really want to make a success of this business, then you must put yourself on a schedule.
Mary Kay Ash
#17. Some of the most successful people managers are also the best listeners.
Mary Kay Ash
#18. Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash
#19. You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Mary Kay Ash
#20. Everyone wears a sign that says Make me feel important
Mary Kay Ash
#21. Whenever I meet someone, I try to imagine her wearing an invisible sign that says: MAKE ME FEEL IMPORTANT. I respond to this sign immediately, and it works wonders.
Mary Kay Ash
#22. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.
Mary Kay Ash
#23. Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.
Mary Kay Ash
#24. Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
Mary Kay Ash
#25. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Mary Kay Ash
#27. Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.
Mary Kay Ash
#28. Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.
Mary Kay Ash
#30. Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.
Mary Kay Ash
#31. You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
Mary Kay Ash
#32. I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.
Mary Kay Ash
#33. The reason so many people fail to make lasting changes is that they don't commit to one path long enough to see results.
Mary Kay Mueller
#34. Sometimes listening itself may not be enough-some people must be prodded if you are to find out what they're thinking.
Mary Kay Ash
#35. You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit
Mary Kay Andrews
#37. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash
#38. Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind.
Mary Kay Ash
#39. God did not have time to make a nobody, so you're a somebody.
Mary Kay Ash
#42. Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.
Mary Kay Blakely
#43. There are two things people want more than sex & money ... recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
#44. Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
#45. My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared
Mary Kay Ash
#46. In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don't like to do.
Mary Kay Ash
#47. One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.
Mary Kay Ash
#48. Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.
Mary Kay Ash
#49. No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Mary Kay Ash
#50. God didn't have time to create a nobody ...
Mary Kay Ash
#52. There is a way; Up, Around, Over or Through
Mary Kay Ash
#53. Real strength entails being considerate and supportive of people's feelings.
Mary Kay Ash
#55. Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.
Mary Kay Ash
#56. We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.
Mary Kay Ash
#57. The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity.
Mary Kay Ash
#58. A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash
#60. If I'm talking to someone in a crowded room, I try to make this person feel as though we're the only ones present. I shut out everything else. I look directly at the person. Even if a gorilla were to walk into the room, I probably wouldn't notice it.
Mary Kay Ash
#61. Dylan Landis knows how to unnerve a reader, even as she's appreciating being unnerved. Rainey Royal thrums with sex and power. A brave, exquisite book.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#62. Bear in mind that beauty is individual and personal, that the look and feeling you're after is one with which you can be comfortable each and every day of your life.
Mary Kay Ash
#63. I believe that there is no such thing as a subordinate. If the air-conditioning ceases to work in our building, then the repair technician becomes more important than the chairman of the board. We're all people working together toward a common objective.
Mary Kay Ash
#64. People will support that which they help to create.
Mary Kay Ash
#65. Individuals sometimes feel insignificant and doubt that one person can really make a difference in this world. Well, believe me, one person can.
Mary Kay Ash
#66. It is important for you to have a goal. You simply can't get there if you don't know where you are going. Begin to build in your mind a dream. The write it down and make your goal realistic. Aim high enough that you will have to stretch your ability and your potential to reach it.
Mary Kay Ash
#68. Nothing wilts faster than a laurel rested upon.
Mary Kay Ash
#69. Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.
Mary Kay Ash
#70. Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.
Mary Kay Ash
#71. I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.
Mary Kay Ash
#72. I tried the line out on some people on the street, like, "What do you think of this: 'the art of family life is to not take it personally'?" And they would laugh. But you know, everybody's got something going on in their families, and then once you have kids, that of course exponentially rises.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#74. Good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.
Mary Kay Ash
#75. What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.
Mary Kay Ash
#76. A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.
Mary Kay Ash
#77. I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.
Mary Kay Ash
#78. While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.
Mary Kay Ash
#79. We should have made do at home. We threw away so much food."
Ricky says, "We ran out of ketchup," and the rest of them concur. No ketchup, no dinner.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#81. When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice.
Mary Kay Ash
#82. If you have an idea and I have an idea - then we EACH have JUST ONE idea ... but if you share your idea with me and I do the same ... we EACH have TWO ideas!
Mary Kay Ash
#83. If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.
Mary Kay Ash
#84. Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.
Mary Kay Ash
#85. A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
Mary Kay Blakely
#86. So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
Mary Kay Ash
#87. Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash
#88. God does not ask your ability Or your inability. He asks only your availability.
Mary Kay Ash
#89. Be a dreamer. Have a sense of greatness. It has been said that if you can dream it, you can do it. And I believe that. Before your dream can become a reality, you have to see it in your own mind; see its fulfillment, whatever it may be.
Mary Kay Ash
#90. Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe remember you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
#91. Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.
Mary Kay Ash
#92. Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.
Mary Kay Andrews
#93. People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
#94. It's an old trick now, God knows, but it works every time. At the very moment women start to expand their place in the world, scientific studies deliver compelling reasons for them to stay home.
Mary Kay Blakely
#95. The DNA of the novel - which, if I begin to write nonfiction, I will write about this - is that: the title of the novel is the whole novel. The first line of the novel is the whole novel. The point of view is the whole novel. Every subplot is the whole novel. The verb tense is the whole novel.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#96. There's a big difference between a decisive manager and a tyrant.
Mary Kay Ash
#97. There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
Mary Kay Ash
#98. Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash
#99. Give yourself something to work toward
constantly.
Mary Kay Ash
#100. We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
Mary Kay Ash
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