Mary Kay believes it: 40 is the new 30. Or in its case, 47 is the new 24 to 35.

Reputation is everything in the game plan for success. Behind every successful business is a reputation of excellence. How would you grade yours? Do you know or care? You should.

Thirty-One Gifts is turning heads for their ability to rack up incredible growth numbers, while maintaining a close-knit family feel.

Amway’s Corporate Citizenship Program has been around for a long time, even before it was named. Jesse Hertstein, Amway Senior Corporate Citizenship Specialist says, “Before we started calling it Corporate Citizenship, it was just a way we did business—an ethic and value that was baked into the DNA of our company.”

If the history of financial services direct seller Primerica were captured in a book, its latest chapter would have opened on April 1. For Primerica, that wasn’t April Fools’ Day. It was Independence Day—the day of its initial public offering (IPO), one of the most successful Wall Street has ever seen.

Fruit of the Loom, Dingo boots, Gitano Jeans—these are just a few of the famous companies that entrepreneur Bill Farley has owned and run. Farley purchased his first company, Anaheim Citrus Products, in 1976. That purchase became the foundation for a series of acquisitions that grew into a multibillion-dollar group of businesses. At its height, Farley Industries was doing approximately $5 billion in sales annually and employed 65,000.