Oral History Interviews with Richard Rogers, November 1974 Page: 12
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it might be, and the one that Mary Kay thinks is really
going to be terrific. And lo and behold, the gal gets
herself in debt to the company; she makes a profit, but
of course she goes out and buys that new washing
machine, that refrigerator, and that new dress, and
then eventually comes to her husband and says, "I've
got to borrow some money." And her husband says, "Well,
here you've been telling me about all this money you've
been making (chuckle), where is it?" You know. It's
the typical family situation. Two days later comes a
notice from the company that if you don't . . . your
account's past due, and if you don't pay it, we're going
to terminate you. The girl gets . . . gets all upset
about the company dunning her for the money, and it
creates a very unruly situation, and often time leads
to the salesperson saying, "Well, the company can just
shove it. All I was was two days late, and they
didn't have to send me that nasty letter, and so on
and so forth." When you involve women in the business
world, you better be sensitive to the needs of those
people, and how they think. And so one of the things
that we planned in our planning session, and I'd like
to mention this planning session we had, because it
was on-going for several weeks. It was a . . . it was
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Caruth, Donald L. & Rogers, Richard. Oral History Interviews with Richard Rogers, November 1974, book, November 1974; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306801/m1/14/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.