Mary Kay Ash Quotes

120 Mary Kay Ash Quotes

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Women can no more duplicate the male style of management than American businessmen can exactly reproduce the Japanese style. This is not to suggest that Americans and Japanese cannot learn from one another – they can and do.
Mary Kay Ash

To me, P and L doesn’t only mean profit and loss – it also means people and love.
Mary Kay Ash

Unlike many people who start a new business, money was not my prime motivation – not that I was so well off that it wasn’t a consideration, in fact, I had put my lifetime savings on the line. The business had to succeed or I would never have another opportunity to start my own business.
Mary Kay Ash

We all did whatever needed to be done. I sold, taught other women, conducted sales meetings, and emptied wastebaskets.
Mary Kay Ash

Some people… are so caught up in themselves that they fail to realize that the other person wants to feel important too.
Mary Kay Ash

People will support that which they help to create.
Mary Kay Ash

Good people are a company’s most important asset. People are more important than the plan.
Mary Kay Ash

Each of us craves to be recognized.
Mary Kay Ash

Let people know that you appreciate their performance and they will respond by doing even better.
Mary Kay Ash

Recognition is the most powerful of all motivating techniques.
Mary Kay Ash



When you listen, the benefit is twofold: You receive the necessary information, and you make the other person feel important.
Mary Kay Ash

Good leaders are good listeners.
Mary Kay Ash

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Mary Kay Ash

Leaders are enthusiastic, and enthusiasm is contagious.
Mary Kay Ash

The word enthusiasm has a Greek origin meaning ‘God within.’
Mary Kay Ash

True leaders establish success patterns that make everyone think success.
Mary Kay Ash

People often resist change when they don’t participate in the decision-making process. Some of the best leaders ‘plant the seed’ that permits others to propose the idea and take credit for it!
Mary Kay Ash

Never, absolutely never, compromise your principles.
Mary Kay Ash

We are meant to use and increase whatever God has given us. And when we do, we shall be given more.
Mary Kay Ash

You can’t stand still. You either go forward or backward.
Mary Kay Ash



Every person should have a lifetime self-improvement program.
Mary Kay Ash

Nobody wins ‘em all. If you come down on them too hard for losing, they’ll stop sticking their necks out.
Mary Kay Ash

The more enjoyment people derive from their work, the better they will produce.
Mary Kay Ash

Pomposity can… be a transparent cover-up for incompetence.
Mary Kay Ash

You must develop the ability to know the difference between a real problem and an imaginary one.
Mary Kay Ash

The best-run companies develop their own managers from within – rarely do they seek outsiders. In fact, it’s a sign of weakness when a company goes outside too often…
Mary Kay Ash

Conduct yourself in business with the same scruples you would want your children to observe in their lives.
Mary Kay Ash

I had spend many years working for somebody else, so I knew firsthand what it was like to be accountable to another person.
Mary Kay Ash

I vowed that my company would never repeat the wrongs that I had witnessed in other companies for which I had worked.
Mary Kay Ash

‘If I were this person, how would I want to be treated?’ To this day, when I am searching for a solution to a people problem, I ask myself that question. And when I do, even the most difficult problem soon becomes unraveled.
Mary Kay Ash



My retirement was less than a week old, and I already knew why so many obituaries include the phrase ‘He retired last year.’ In fact, I lived across the street from a mortuary, and I began to wonder if I should just call them up and tell them to ‘come on over.’
Mary Kay Ash

Building my career and caring for my family had been everything to me. I never liked those things other people seemed to enjoy for relaxation.
Mary Kay Ash

I never tell my age. Why should I? I believe that a woman who will tell her age will tell anything.
Mary Kay Ash

There are four kinds of people in this world: Those who make things happen; Those who watch things happen; Those who wonder what happened; Those who don’t know anything happened!
Mary Kay Ash

You can do it!
Mary Kay Ash

If Mary Kay Cosmetics failed, I wasn’t going back into an easy retirement. I’d be broke! And that meant that I’d have to work for someone else for the rest of my life. That’s a very strong incentive!
Mary Kay Ash

I believe that work if often the best antidote for grief.
Mary Kay Ash

If today one more woman learns how great she really is, then for me it has been a great day.
Mary Kay Ash

People are happiest when they have goals, small and large, because they can look forward to attaining them.
Mary Kay Ash

Don’t our biggest thrills in life come from realizing goals?
Mary Kay Ash



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