Avon Quotes

"My mother gave me a jar of Avon Rich Moisture Cream when I was 14. She said, `Don`t ask me why; you`ll thank me later.`" -Woman`s World, 4-11-06

I realized that this was a professional tour stop - the event was called the Avon Futures, a satellite tour of the Virginia Slims.

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon`s, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; "you should really consider this".

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.

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.