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Success unshared is failure.
John Paul Dejoria / Businessman
Success
Failure
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A success unshared is a failure.
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Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.
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Enthusiastic
Rejected
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I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.
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Retire
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Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.
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Dream
Inspire
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Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
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Attention
Pay
Pay Attention
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Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.
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We are the first to ever publicly advertise we dont test on animals.
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Animal
Firsts
Tests
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We are the first to ever publicly advertise we don't test on animals.
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Advertise
Animals
Publicly
Test
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Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
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Famous
Hairstylist
World
World History
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Rail travel for me is the most relaxing, most scenic way to see the country.
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Travel
Country
Rail
Scenic
Way
Me See Way
Relaxing
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Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.
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People
Successful
Want
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Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.
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Dies
Good Hair
Hairstylist
Mitchell
Paul
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You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.
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Able
Nice
World
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You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.
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Assets
Gold
Safe
Saving
Savings
Silver
Hold
Insurance
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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.
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Happy Person
Investing
Loving Yourself
People
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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.
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Cents
Majority
My Time
Passion
Patron
Cent
Spend
Per
Mitchell
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Yes, everyone deserves to have national health care in a great nation such as ours. We just need to find ways to do it and not be overtaxed.
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Health Care
Great Nation
Ours
Yes
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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.
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Candidates
Independent
Middle
Republican
Would Be
Alike
Democrats
Donated
Straight
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I like to live well and I feel good about it because I know how much we give back. There's plenty for my family, now let's take care of the rest.
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Feel Good
Plenty
Take Care
Rest
How Much
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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.
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Innovation
New Ways
Next
Way
Figuring
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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.
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Computer
Phones
Use
Would Be
Phone
Inundated
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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.
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Details
Insane
Philosophy
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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.
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Running
America
Balance
Lobbyists
People
Business World People
Biggest
Budget
Business People
Run
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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.
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Communication
Able
Better Place
Communicate
Loved Ones
Life Your Better
Loved One
Talked
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I could go insane if I obsessed over every little detail of all of my companies. My management philosophy is to pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.
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Attention
Insane
Management
Obsessed
Pay
Pay Attention
Philosophy
Companies
Detail
Ignore
Trivial
Vital
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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.
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Journey
Good Friend
Rail
Two
Family Good People
Comparable
Good Friends
Plane
Relaxing
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Why pour shampoo into a rabbit's eyes to see how much shampoo you can put in an adult's eyes before they go blind? I'll put them in my hair, in my eyes before I would give them to anyone else.
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Blind
Shampoo
Anyone Else
Pour
Rabbit
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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 / Businessman
Journey
Age
Travel
Fun
Golden
Golden Age
Golden Days
Long
Long Journey
Patron
Special
Tequila
Wanted
Back
Days
Part
Express
Help
Preserve
Something Fun
Step
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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.
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Government
Fabulous
Giving
Little Bit
Philanthropy
Years
Work Money Government
Works
Each Year
More And More
Same Thing
Throw
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I don't micromanage, but I do care deeply about every product we make. Every one goes through me, and I try most of our products before they go to market, including our John Paul Pet flea and tick shampoo. If I don't like it, it's not coming out.
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Pet
Including
John Paul
Products
Shampoo
Tick
Deeply
Flea
Paul
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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.
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Mom
Brother
Friday
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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 / Businessman
Brother
Cents
Friday
Garden
Junior High
Rich
Work Mom Home
Work Home Food
Junior
Junior High School
Refrigerator
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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 / Businessman
Christmas
Jobs
Morning
Brother
Cards
Paper
Part Time
Ready
Routes
School
Selling
Ten
Job
Deliver
First Job
Fold
Ten Years
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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.
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Accountants
Administrators
Deficit
Guy
People
Tactics
Together
Good Business Together
Picture
Business People
Depend
Detail
Politicians
Room
Overall
Shrink
Tremendously
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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.
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Guy
Retail
Would Be
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We're 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 I'm going to be the one guy who kept his word.
John Paul Dejoria / Businessman
Retail
Size
Tomorrow
Major
Overnight
Promised
Solely
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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.
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Better Place
Charity
Gates
Giving
Groups
Including
Pledge
Three
Turner
Years
Talk
Away
Money Me Better
Bill
Bill Gates
Doing
Year
Days
Give
Group
Help
Least
Place
Meet
Once A Year
Ted
Ted Turner
Warren
Warren Buffett
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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 / Businessman
Smile
Business
Differences
Doors
Hurdle
People
Ready
Rejection
Successful
Successful People
Unsuccessful
Want
Things
Go
Face
Any
Between
Biggest
Difference
Door
Enthusiastically
Number
Slammed
Start
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