Biography of Gaspar Aquino de Beln

Gaspar Aquino de Beln is a Filipina poet and

translator of the 17th century, author in particular of
Pasyon, a famous poetic of passion, died narration
and resurrection of Christ.

Filipino natives, generally were not taught Spanish,

but the bilingual individuals, notably poet-translator
Gaspar Aquino de Beln, produced devotional
poetry written in the Roman script in the Tagalog
language. Pasyon, begun by Aquino de Beln, is a
narrative of the passion, death and resurrection of
Jesus Christ, which has circulated in many versions.
This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia
Gaspar Aquino de Beln; it is used under
the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Unported License. You may redistribute it, verbatim
or modified, providing that you comply with the terms
of the CC-BY-SA.
Synopsis
Born May 12, 1918, in Hot Wells, Texas, Mary Kay Ash left the traditional workplace after
watching yet another man whom she had trained get promoted over her. She started her own
cosmetics company, using incentive programs and other strategies to give her employees the
chance to benefit from their achievements. Mary Kay's marketing skills and people savvy soon
led her company to enormous success.

Early Career

Business leader and entrepreneur Mary Kathlyn Wagner was born on May 12, 1918, in Hot
Wells, Texas. Ash was a pioneer for women in business, building a substantial cosmetics empire.
In 1939, Ash became as a salesperson for Stanley Home Products, hosting parties to encourage
people to buy household items. She was so good at making the sale that she was hired away by
another company, World Gifts, in 1952. Ash spent a little more than a decade at the company,
but she quit in protest after watching yet another man that she had trained get promoted above
her and earn a much higher salary than hers.

Entrepreneurial Venture

After her bad experiences in the traditional workplace, Ash set out to create her own business at
the age of 45. She started with an initial investment of $5,000 in 1963. She purchased the
formulas for skin lotions from the family of a tanner who created the products while he worked
on hides. With her son, Richard Rogers, she opened a small store in Dallas and had nine
salespeople working for her. Today there are more than 1.6 million salespeople working for
Mary Kay Inc. around the world.

The company turned a profit in its first year and sold close to $1 million in products by the end
of its second year driven by Ash's business acumen and philosophy. The basic premise was much
like the products she sold earlier in her career. Her cosmetics were sold through at-home parties
and other events. But Ash strove to make her business different by employing incentive
programs and not having sales territories for her representatives. She believed in the golden rule
"treat others as you want to be treated," and operated by the motto: God first, family second and
career third.

Ash wanted everyone in the organization to have the opportunity to benefit from their successes.
Sales representativesAsh called them consultantsbought the products from May Kay at
wholesale prices and then sold them at retail price to their customers. They could also earn
commissions from new consultants that they had recruited.
Commercial Succes
All of her marketing skills and people savvy helped make Mary Kay Cosmetics a very
lucrative business. The company went public in 1968, but it was bought back by Ash and her
family in 1985 when the stock price took a hit. The business itself remained successful and now
annual sales exceed $2.2 billion, according to the company's website.

At the heart of this profitable organization was Ash's enthusiastic personality. She was known for
her love of the color pink and it could be found everywhere, from the product packaging to the
Cadillacs she gave away to top-earning consultants each year. She seemed to sincerely value her
consultants, and once said "People are a company's greatest asset."

Her approach to business attracted a lot of interest. She was admired for her strategies and the
results they achieved. She wrote several books about her experiences, including Mary Kay: The
Success Story of America's Most Dynamic Businesswoman (1981), Mary Kay on People
Management (1984) and Mary Kay: You Can Have It All (1995).

Personal Life

While she stepped down from her position as CEO of the company in 1987, Ash remained an
active part of the business. She established the Mary Kay Charitable Foundation in 1996. The
foundation supports cancer research and efforts to end domestic violence. In 2000, she was
named the most outstanding woman in business in the 20th century by Lifetime Television.

The cosmetics mogul died on November 22, 2001, in Dallas, Texas. By this time, the company
she created had become a worldwide enterprise with representatives in more than 30 markets.
She will be best remembered for building a profitable business from scratch that created new
opportunities for women to achieve financial success.

Married three times, Ash had three childrenRichard, Ben and Marylynby her first husband,
J. Ben Rogers. The two divorced after Rogers returned from serving in World War II. Her
second marriage to a chemist was brief; he died of a heart attack in 1963, just one month after the
two had gotten married. She married her third husband, Mel Ash, in 1966, and the couple stayed
together until Mel's death in 1980.