When it comes to influential people of the business world, the names that come to mind include Carnegie, Rockafeller, Ford, Gates and others. Their life stories are worth looking into just to see where they came from and how they got to where they got. But perhaps none has been more of a force in the business world (or in the field of inspiring others to become more than they thought they could become), than Mary Kay Ash. The cosmetics queen best known for her pink packages, pink cadillacs pa.