“The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon Success Copy Share Image
For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element. — Vidal Sassoon Architecture Copy Share Image
As stylists, we're groundshakers and daymakers. I was always in hair. — Vidal Sassoon Hair Copy Share Image
I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair. — Vidal Sassoon Always Copy Share Image
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism. — Vidal Sassoon Amount Copy Share Image
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. — Vidal Sassoon Felt Copy Share Image
There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm.… — Vidal Sassoon Clients Copy Share Image
If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise. — Vidal Sassoon Compromise Copy Share Image
My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous. — Vidal Sassoon Cutting Copy Share Image
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's… — Vidal Sassoon Advice Copy Share Image
It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel. — Vidal Sassoon Drunk Copy Share Image
When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back… — Vidal Sassoon Back Copy Share Image
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a… — Vidal Sassoon Cash Copy Share Image
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to… — Vidal Sassoon Back Copy Share Image
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult… — Vidal Sassoon Bruise Copy Share Image
Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines… — Vidal Sassoon Beautiful Copy Share Image
If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of… — Vidal Sassoon Ask me Copy Share Image
If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles… — Vidal Sassoon Angle Copy Share Image
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at… — Vidal Sassoon Football Copy Share Image
Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much… — Vidal Sassoon Better Copy Share Image
A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her… — Vidal Sassoon Changed Copy Share Image
I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount. — Vidal Sassoon Beginning Copy Share Image
Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way. — Vidal Sassoon Advice Copy Share Image
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft. — Vidal Sassoon Benefits Copy Share Image
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel… — Vidal Sassoon Excited Copy Share Image
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted. — Vidal Sassoon Evicted Copy Share Image
To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art. — Vidal Sassoon Art Copy Share Image
Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. — Vidal Sassoon Assuming Copy Share Image
Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft. — Vidal Sassoon Craft Copy Share Image
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. — Vidal Sassoon Feeling Copy Share Image
So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been… — Vidal Sassoon Always Copy Share Image
