Mary kathlyn Wagner was born on May 12, 1918 in Hot Wells, Texas. Ash is a pioneer for women in business, building a substantial cosmetics empire. She became a salesperson for Stanley Home Products. She then was hired in another company called World gifts. She spent a little more than a decade with that company. After a bad experiences with the traditional work place, at the age of 45 she set out to create her own business. She started out with an investment of 5,000 in 1963. She opened a store in dallas and had nine salesperson waking for her and selling skin products, and today there are more than 1.6 million salespeople working for her company Mary Kay Inc. around the world.

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