Vidal Sassoon

"For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before."

"So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it."

"I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."

"I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing."

"I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it."

"It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself."