It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intell… — Quoted

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

Vidal Sassoon · Intelligence

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Vidal Sassoon

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Work

Vidal Sassoon

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.

Education

Vidal Sassoon

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Work

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.

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