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.

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.

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

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.