She never cared, quite frankly about how big her business was - she cared about the women and that's her legacy.
This is a comment one of Mary Kay's colleagues made concerning her goals and focus. I like it because it also reinforces one of the things we talked about last post about how Sam Walton and others didn't go about trying to be the biggest as their primary or even secondary goal.
It was her care for women and helping empowering them to success that was her 
motivator.
As a matter of fact, it was in putting together notes to write a book about this subject that she literally looked at them and realized she had made a blueprint for the type of business that would do that very thing. That was how Mary Kay got the idea to create the company.
When we look at the great successful businesses of the past century, it's extraordinary to see how the founders and other leaders almost always looked at something other than big as the key to success.
Big comes from looking at the right things that eventually produce something big. Mary Kay poured herself out to help women, the byproduct was a large, great company. It was the women that mattered. Each of us need to be motivated by such factors to help build great companies and divisions as well.
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