Mary Kay Ash Quotes

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

And I also trust that there's more than one way to do something.

If something doesn't go your way, then look for another way. If something's broken, fix it.

Knower of the means makes impossible tasks also possible.

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn't have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

You do the best you can with what's thrown at you, then you try again.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

To survive, you've got to keep wheedling your way. You can't just sit there and fight against odds when it's not going to work. You have to turn a corner, dig a hole, go through a tunnel - and find a way to keep moving.

When you have an employee who's innovative in your organization, what are they thinking about in the shower? If they're working in an exciting place, they're not thinking what they're going to do over the weekend. They're thinking: 'How do I solve that problem?'

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it.

We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.

I always look at 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail.' They talked about how they wrote this movie with horses, and then they realized that horses are super-expensive and time-consuming. 'Why don't we just change it to coconuts?' That's part of my process.

Sometimes you don't get in through the front door. Sometimes you don't get in through the back. Sometimes you got to climb through the window. That doesn't mean the opportunity wasn't there. There's a way; you've just got to find it.

What you have to do is work around whatever the 'circumstances are at a club.

I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.