I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

It is so much easier to be nice, to be respectful, to put yourself in your customers' shoes and try to understand how you might help them before they ask for help, than it is to try to mend a broken customer relationship.

Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.

It takes a lot of things to work together in order to be wealthy but with a little luck, a lot of luck... You've got to be good at something. For a 20-year-old, you don't have to know exactly what you want to do, you've just got to go find something you can be great at, and then go be great at it.

The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.