Top 46 Quotes by Vidal Sassoon

About Vidal Sassoon

These are some quotes by British author Vidal Sassoon Businessman, who lived between January 17, 1928 and May 9, 2012.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

Vidal Sassoon

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

Vidal Sassoon

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

Vidal Sassoon

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.

Vidal Sassoon

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

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

Vidal Sassoon

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

Vidal Sassoon

There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

Vidal Sassoon

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

Vidal Sassoon

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

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.

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.

Vidal Sassoon

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