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Avon Invented The Concept Of Direct Marketing And Direct Selling Beauty. And That's Still Very Valid To Us. We'll Have A Firm That Will Be Around For Another 114 Years As Strongly As It Was The First 114.

My Parents Kept The Best Aspects Of The Asian Culture, And They Americanized The Family. My Mother Was A Great Example For Me. She Was A Working Mother With A Good Career.

The Company Was Actually Founded On Creating Earnings Opportunities For Women, Even Before It Went Into Skincare, Lipstick, And Fragrance. The Founding Avon Principle, Before Women Could Vote And When Basically Only Men Were Working, Was To Allow Women To Get Out Of Their Homes And To Create An Entrepreneurship Opportunity For Them.

No One In My Family Had A Retail Or Marketing Background. They Were Professionals. They Didn't Understand Just What I Was Doing By Going Into Retailing. After I Started, Though, It Got Into My Blood. I Knew This Was What I Wanted.

It Has Given Me A Global Vantage Point, Being The Daughter Of Immigrants From China, Who Had Nothing When They Came Here. And Now I Am Leading A Company. It Speaks To Something Deep In Me, The Concept That You Don't Have To Start With Anything.