Day 17 Belief first（中）

先给大家道个歉，对不起！T-T
一个多月没有更新，结尾有福利，(⺣◡⺣)
一定要听到最后！
谢谢！(╭
（前两名的小伙伴～要求私信提喔:-O）

Don't let your gender get in the way of your career success.
Belief first, family second, career third.

原文：
Mary Kay is a wel-known American businesswoman.Her company,Mary Kay Cosmetics
Inc.,is a very successful company which sells cosmetics(化妆品）and employs people all over the
world.She became successful through hard work and she has a strong belief in herself.
Mary Kay was born in America.Soon after she started school,her father became ill.Her
mother worked 14 hours a day in a restaurant to support the family.Mary Kay had to do
housework,cook,and take care of her father.
After high school,her family couldn't afford to send her to college.So she got married and
started a family.Then she started her sales career.At first,she sold books.L ater,she visited people's
homes to sell home care products.Mary Kay was succesful seling those products.Her managers
praised her work but never raised her pay.It taught her that men didn't believe that a woman could
succeed in business.She decided to prove them wrong.
In 1963.Mary Kay started her own company.It sold many skin care and beauty products.
Today the company has sales of more than 1,000 inillion dollars and employs more than 800,000
sales representatives(代表）in 37 countries around the world and most of them are women.
Mary Kay shared with her employees her life motto(座右铭)-Belief first;Family second;
Career third.Every year,she held an “Awards Night”and awarded a pink Cadillac car,diamond
jewelries and 5-star vacations to successful employees.She praised them,not just money.The
company wants women to feel good about themselves.
Mary Kay died in 2001.She was a tough businesswoman with a great knowledge of marketing
(营销）and sales.Through her belief in women's abilities and her willingness to give them a
chance,she made the dream of a successtul carer come true for hundreds of thousands of women
all over the world.