"There would be no hair growing business today had I not started it."

"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!"

"My message is for everyone, not just my race."

"My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others."

"There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights."