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Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.
John Paul DeJoria
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I'm not a detail guy. I depend on accountants and administrators to do my detail stuff for me, but I do know the overall picture and I know that if you put business people together in a room, not just politicians, they could shrink the deficit tremendously by good business tactics.
John Paul DeJoria
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Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
John Paul DeJoria
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Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.
John Paul DeJoria
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The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.
John Paul DeJoria
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I wanted to do my part to help preserve that golden age of travel... I step aboard The Patron Tequila Express railcar, and I go back in time to the days when a long journey was something fun and very special.
John Paul DeJoria
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A success unshared is a failure.
John Paul DeJoria
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Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.
John Paul DeJoria
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I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.
John Paul DeJoria
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My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.
John Paul DeJoria
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Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.
John Paul DeJoria
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America is one of the biggest businesses in the world, and the people who run it can't balance their budget. We need business people in there and lobbyists out of there.
John Paul DeJoria
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Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.
John Paul DeJoria
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At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.
John Paul DeJoria
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I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.
John Paul DeJoria
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When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.
John Paul DeJoria
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You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.
John Paul DeJoria
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In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.
John Paul DeJoria
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You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.
John Paul DeJoria
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Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.
John Paul DeJoria
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Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
John Paul DeJoria
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I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.
John Paul DeJoria
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Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
John Paul DeJoria
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I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.
John Paul DeJoria
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We are the first to ever publicly advertise we dont test on animals.
John Paul DeJoria
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I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it.
John Paul DeJoria
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By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.
John Paul DeJoria
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Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.
John Paul DeJoria
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Most people would rather sit on a plane for two hours than spend two days on a train, but there's nothing comparable to taking a relaxing rail journey with your family or good friends.
John Paul DeJoria
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Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.
John Paul DeJoria