John Paul DeJoria Quotes

• Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Wells

  "12 rich, powerful people share their surprising definitions of success" by Shana Lebowitz, www.businessinsider.com. March 4, 2018.

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• Successful people do all the things that unsuccessful people don't want to do.

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  Successful, People, Want

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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.

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  Successful, Doors, Differences

  "Former Cover Model Ashley Zarlin Gets Cheeky With Us". Interview with Clara Lemon, localemagazine.com. July 4, 2015.

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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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• Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

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  Dream, Inspire

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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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  Phones, Would Be, Use

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• A success unshared is a failure.

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• Stay enthusiastic after getting rejected.

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  Rejected, Enthusiastic

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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.

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  Morning, Brother, Jobs

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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, Way, Next

  "Chasing a Dream". "The Turnaround", www.cnn.com. February 26, 2005.

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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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  Gold, Saving, Safe

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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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  Years, Giving, Groups

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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, Friday, Brother

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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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  Philosophy, Insane, Details

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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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  People, Guy, Together

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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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  Loving Yourself, People, Investing

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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, People

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• I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.

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  Retiring

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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, Years, Giving

  "Erin Burnett Outfront", www.cnn.com. April 16, 2012.

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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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  Nice, World, Able

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• Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

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  Hairstylist, Good Hair, Dies

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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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  Passion, Majority, Cents

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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, Loved Ones

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• Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

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  World, World History, Hairstylist

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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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  Independent, Would Be, Republican

  "High Price for Jobs; Obama Getting Ready to Counter; Aurora Victims' Fund". "Erin Burnett OutFront" with Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper, edition.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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