Quotes About Mary Kay Cosmetics

#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. Nothing is a blinding as neurotic self-pity. We walk around in a fog.

Helen M. Luke

#3. Sprinting for a full day in Atlanta in midsummer proved very challenging. That humidity is crazy. Georgia is a beautiful state, but the weather is intense. I was warned, but for some reason I thought it would be like L.A. in the summer. The reality? No.

Theo James

#4. We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

David Dinkins

#5. I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

Mary Kay Ash

#6. I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.

Kevin Smith

#7. If more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened ... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

Neal Shusterman

#8. True visionaries are never lukewarm.

George Barna

#9. I've been fascinated over the years by the way refrains work. Think, say, of the refrains in Yeats' ballads. Ideally, each time the refrain comes back in a poem, it is both the same and different. It works by counterpoint and reiteration. It accrues meaning.

Edward Hirsch

#10. 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

#11. We are not ashamed to incorporate and adapt a good idea to our needs just because we didn't come up with it. Likewise, we are not afraid to abandon something we actually did come up with ourselves if we discover that it doesn't work.

Dave Redding

#12. And so the greatest of American triumphs ... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

Robert M. Gates

#13. You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.

Stephen Sondheim