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Andrea Jung
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: August 28
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When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.
Andrea Jung
It's an unbelievable responsibility to influence decisions, shareholder value and most important to me, people's careers and livelihoods.
Andrea Jung
President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.
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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.
Andrea Jung
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.
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You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that.
Andrea Jung
I think the economic empowerment of women that has been growing over the past decade is at the 'inflection point' with this global recession. Women are, we believe, the solution for their families in their ability to go out and increase household income.
Andrea Jung
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.
Andrea Jung
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
Andrea Jung
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.
Andrea Jung
I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.
Andrea Jung
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.
Andrea Jung
Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have to get the right people first.
Andrea Jung
I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to be analytical and flexible. Flexibility is one of the key ingredients to being successful. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Andrea Jung
The product is second to managing the people.
Andrea Jung
China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.
Andrea Jung
If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Andrea Jung
Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
Andrea Jung
Avon is a unique place to work we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.
Andrea Jung
My parents ingrained in me early on that the perfect score is always something to strive for. I want to win and I want to succeed no matter what.
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